cia_70491_70490_01.txt
Subject: AL-MANA AL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROJECT
Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence
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CITE CIA 325352
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
OCTOBER 1993
COUNTRY; IRAQ
SUBJECT: AL-MANA AL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROJECT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF A LETHAL VIRUS (NFI) WAS
INITIATED AT IRAQ'S AL-MANA AL FACILITY. ACCORDING TO
APPROXIMATELY 55 PEOPLE WORKED UNIMPEDED ON THIS PROJECT
THROUGHOUT THE GULF WAR UNTIL AT LEAST 1992. ASIDE FROM
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE VIRUS, EXPERIMENTS WERE
CONDUCTED TO SIMULATE EXPLOSIVE DISSEMINATION FROM ARTILLERY
SHELLS AND BOMBS.
3. AL-MANA AL IS LOCATED OFF THE AL-DAWRAH EXPRESSWAY, SOUTH
OF THE AL-RASHID ARMY BARRACKS, AND NEAR AN OIL REFINERY.
COMMENT- THE SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 15 MINUTES SOUTH OF
BAGHDAD. AL-MANA AL WAS BUILT IN A FARM AREA WHICH CAN BE
REACHED BY TRAVELING APPROXIMATELY 20-25 MINUTES EAST ON THE
DIRT ROAD OPPOSITE THE. ZUBAYDAH/DANRAH CITY EXIT OF THE -
DAWRAH EXPRESSWAY.)
4. THE AL-MANA FACILITY CONSISTS OF THREE SEPARATE
COMPLEXES. THE FIRST, WHICH IS NEAREST TO THE ROAD, HAS A
SIGN INDICATING THAT IT BELONGS TO IRAQ'S MINISTRY OF
AGRICULTURE. THE MAIN DOOR FACES THE STREET
THE SECOND COMPLEX IS SEPARATED FROM THE MAIN BUILDING BY A
DIRT AREA AND IS REFERRED TO AS THE "ZONE." THIS BUILDING
CONTAINS LABORATORIES WHICH ARE USED FOR RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT, ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS, AND WORK ON SMALL SCALE
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE (BW) AGENT DISSEMINATION USING EXPLOSIVES
OR AEROSOLS EXPERIMENTS WHICH SIMULATED EXPLOSIVE CONDITIONS
SUBJECTED THE VIRUS TO HEAT, COLD, AND PRESSURE.
THE THIRD SET OF BUILDINGS IS LOCATED BEHIND THE SECOND.
THESE BUILDINGS HOUSE THE POWER GENERATORS, HEATING PUMPS,
AND PURE WATER STORAGE CONTAINERS USED TO SUPPORT
EXPERIMENTS IN THE ZONE.
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