The CBW Convestions Bulletin: SOG teams had access to chemical weapons

THE CBW CONVENTIONS BULLETIN

News, Background and Comment on Chemical and Biological Weapons Issues

ISSUE NO. 38

DECEMBER 1997

Quarterly Journal of the Harvard Sussex Program on CBW Armament and Arms Limitation


News Chronology – May through August 1997

14 September
In the United States, on CNN television, Major General John Singlaub (US Army, retired) states that incapacitating chemical weapons had, at his request, been supplied to the secret forces — SOG (for Studies and Observations Group) teams — operating under his command during the Vietnam War. The weapons included gas canisters and paralyzing darts. He says that the effects of the chemicals were sometimes lethal. CNN reports the Defense Department as confirming that SOG teams had ready access to agent BZ.

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December 1, 1997
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