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In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Confidential

Headquarters of Field Medical Unit \ 31
Number \ chemical \ --------
Date: November 1985

To: medical treatment command of infantry division 22 
Subject: issuing material

Your confidential letter of command 2 \23\963 on 11\24\1985,  
issued material has been received by chemical branch directorate, please acquaint.

Captain, M.D.
Muneeb Adel Khattab
Command \ Commanding Officer of  Field Medical Unit \ 31














	Confidential

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To: Medical treatment command of division ta \ 22
Subject: reply


Your confidential letter 806 dated 1\985 has been dully observed, please acquaint.

[signed]
Captain, M.D.
Mustaffa Ebraheem Abbass
Commanding Officer of Field Medical Unit \ 31

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In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Confidential

Headquarters of Field Medical Unit \ 31
Number \ Chemical \ 4327
Date: 27 November 1985

To: medical treatment command of infantry division 22 
Subject: issuing material

Your confidential letter of command 2 \23\963 on 11\24\1985,
issued material has been received by chemical branch directorate, please acquaint.

[signed]
Captain, M.D.
Muneeb Adel Khattab
ain\ Commanding Officer of  Field Medical Unit \ 31

Confidential

[hand notation: file]

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Republic of Iraq

Department:----------------------
File Number: incoming mail, outgoing
Address: chemical
Subject:-----------------------
Signal to the Connected Governorate: [illegible]

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Instructions of Using Detection Papers' Set, mark 2
1- Goal: the set is used to detect nerve agents' liquid (Zareen Froman Fi X), mustard and cyanide 
hydrogen and phosgene steam.
2- Application Instructions.

a. Detecting nerve agent and mustard liquid.
Take one detection paper from the group marked by two threads, one red and the second yellow, 
then moist the paper with the agent liquid and wait one minute, then compare the resulting color 
with the color displayed on the card. When the temperature is zero or less, wait 5 minutes, then 
compare the colors.
Note: purification liquid and biological material causes similar changes.

b. Detecting hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanide acid).
Take one tube from inside the fabric bag, break the tube and drip its solution on the special paper 
after removing it from inside the envelope marked with a black thread, then firmly rotate the 
paper in a circular movement for one minute then compare the resulting color with the color 
marked on the card.
Note: the paper must be used immediately after removal.

c. Detecting Phosgene.
Take the detection paper from inside the envelope marked with a green thread, then rotate the 
paper in a circular movement for 2 minutes. Compare then with the color marked on the card.
3- Detection papers are good for 3 years, beginning from the marked date.
References: manual number 321, Basic Training of Protection from all Types of Mass 
Destruction Weapons 

[sealed and signed]
medical treatment [illegible]
Number: [illegible] Dawood Ali
Date:


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Enclosed is a copy of the instructions of using detection paper set, mark 2. Please circulate to all 
units holding chemical guides and advise of opening intensive course to train guides on their use 
to take place at formations' headquarters and your command, in order to enhance chemical 
detection methods of the units.
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In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Confidential

Headquarters of the Twelfth Armored Division
Number \ command 1 \ 14\ 3491
Date: 25 October 1985

To: our medical units 31, 32 and 33
Subject: instructions

[seal]: Headquarters of Field Medical Unit \ 31
Confidential
Number: chemical \ 2105
Date: 10\31\1985

Medical treatment affairs directorate letter number 47586 on 10\12\1985 relayed to us through 
confidential letter for the sixteenth division medical command number 502 on 10\22\1985. Above 
is a copy of confidential letter of the chemical branch directorate number 799 on 8\11\1985 
relayed to us through confidential letter of the general headquarters of chemical branch command 
number 2999 on 9\6\1985, and enclosed is an authenticated copy of instructions for using 
detection paper set, mark 2, please acquaint and act accordingly.

Enclosure
1- A copy of instructions of using detection papers set, mark 2.

[hand notations]: chemical, act accordingly, [signed] 10\31; present, 10\31

[signed]
Lieutenant Colonel, Dentist
Emad Taqi Hadi
Medical Treatment Commanding Officer of  the Twelfth Armored Division