SURGEON GENERAL'S DOCUMENTS: MIDDLE EAST INTEL

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                          CHEMICAL WARFARE EXPERIENCE IN IRAN/IRAQ WAR

               IRANIAN EXPERIENCE .
                
               Introduction:
                
               			Iraq is known to have employed nerve agents,
               Tabun (GA) and Sarin (GB), a blood agent, hydrogen cyanide gas
               (HCH), and blister agents, Mustard Gas, "Dusty" Mustard and
               probably Lewisite against Iranian soldiers, civilians, and Iraqi
               Kurdish civilians. Early in the conflict Iraq used GB, then
               switched primarily to mustard.     The vast majority of the
               casualties resulted from the use of the mustard agents, and most
               of the medical data and casualty treatment obtained from the
               conflict pertains to mustard agents.
               
                 PORTIONS FROM PAGE 1-10 WITHELD [(b)(l)sec3.4(b)(1)]