IRAQ SITUATION REPORT

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Subject: IRAQ SITUATION REPORT

Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence







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SPOT COMMENTARY



JANUARY 1991



IRAQ-KUWAIT:   SITUATION REPORT







CZECH TEAM REPORTS NERVE GASS TRACES IN SAUDI DESERT



ACCORDING TO TODAY'S PRESS, MEMBERS OF A CZECHOSLOVAKIAN

CHEMICAL DETECTION TEAM FOUND AND CONFIRMED THE PRESENCE OF NERVE

GAS "TRACE ELEMENTS" IN THE NORTHERN DESERT OF SAUDI ARABIA

SEVERAL DAYS AGO. THE CZECHS STATED THAT THE LEVEL OF NERVE

AGENT PRESENTED NO DANGER TO COALITION TROOPS AND THEORIZED THAT

THESE TRACES WERE CARRIED DOWNWIND FROM DAMAGED IRAQI CHEMICAL

WARFARE FACILITIES.



COMMENT:  THE READINGS OBTAINED BY THE CZECH TEAM ARE FALSE SINCE

THE NERVE AGENTS KNOWN TO BE IN THE IRAQI ARSENAL WOULD NOT

TRAVEL, IN MEASURABLE AMOUNTS, AS FAR AS SAUDI ARABIA.







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