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Subject: IRAQ BW WEAPON
Not Finally Evaluated Intelligence
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JAN 92     CIA 204025
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WARNING: INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE.
COUNTRY:  IRAQ
SUBJ:  IRAQI BIOLOGICAL WEAPON DELIVERY SYSTEM
IRAQI AIR FORCE SPECIALISTS
SUCCEEDED IN          PRODUCING TWO AIRBORNE DELIVERY SYSTEMS
TO BE USED TO DISBURSE A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON, WHICH WAS DESIGNED TO
MAKE AN AREA UNINHABITABLE FOR YEARS.
2.  THE DELIVERY SYSTEMS WERE MODIFIED DROP TANKS,
THE TANKS WERE MODIFIED TO ALLOW THE CONTENTS TO BE SPRAYED FROM A
NOZZLE LOCATED ON THE REAR OF THE TANKS.
THE TANKS WOULD TAKE APPROXIMATELY TWO MINUTES TO
EMPTY, AND IN THIS TIME WOULD HAVE SPRAYED A PATH APPROXIMATELY 20
MILES LONG.
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