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Subject: CW/BW SCUD WARHEADS

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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REFORMATTED TO ELIMINATE INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT PERTAIN

TO GULF WAR ILLNESS ISSUES OR THAT IS CLASSIFIED. A COPY OF

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FEB 91    DIRECTOR 519787







SUBJECT:          INFORMATION ON CHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL SCUD

WARHEADS







INFORMATION







FROM AN UNIDENTIFIED IRAQI

MILITARY OFFICER IN LATE JANUARY 1991.







"THE FIRST PRIORITY OF THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT WAS TO KNOW HOW

CLOSE THE SCUD MISSILES WERE TO THERE TARGETS WHEN DESTROYED BY

PATRIOT MISSILES, AS THEY HAVE CHEMICAL WEAPONS FOR THE SCUDS.

THEY HAVE NOT YET MASTERED THE TECHNOLOGY TO THE FUSING AND

MECHANICAL RELEASING TO USE A CHEMICAL WARHEAD. DUE TO THIS

FACT, IRAQ SEES THE POSSIBILITY OF A SCUD CARRYING CHEMICAL OR

BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS TO BE DISPERSED AT THE MOMENT IT IS HIT BY A

PATRIOT MISSILE. BY USING THIS METHOD, IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE

CHEMICALS WILL DISPERSE OVER AN AREA OF 60 SQUARE KILOMETERS.

OTHERWISE, A SCUD EQUIPPED WITH A CHEMICAL WARHEAD THAT HITS

THE GROUND WILL SPREAD CHEMICALS ONLY OVER A FEW SQUARE

KILOMETERS."







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