U.S. Military Used Sarin Nerve Gas to Kill US Army Defectors during Vietnam War, Report Says… CNN journalists were crucified in 1998 for putting this info out
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military used nerve gas on a mission to kill Americans who defected during the Vietnam War, CNN and Time magazine said Sunday in a joint report.
The so-called Operation Tailwind was approved by the Nixon White House as well as the CIA, the report said, quoting as its main source retired Adm. Thomas Moorer, a Vietnam-era chief of naval operations and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Former military officials who participated in the operation said their job was to kill defectors in Vietnam from the U.S. military, but it was not known for sure whether the suspected defectors died during a preparatory nerve gas attack or during a subsequent assault with conventional weapons carried out by Special Forces troops.
A companion story on the eight-month investigation in which 200 people were interviewed appears in the current edition of Time magazine, written jointly by a CNN producer and correspondent.
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“It was pretty well understood that if you came across a defector, and could prove it to yourself beyond a reasonable doubt, do it, under any circumstance, kill them,” said 1st Lt. Robert Van Buskirk, who was a platoon leader in the operation. “It wasn’t about bringing them back. It was to kill them.”*
“We have no historical evidence to confirm we ever used nerve gas in Vietnam or mounted operations against defectors,” Pentagon spokesman Jim Turner told AP on Sunday.
The reported use of nerve gas came after Nixon pledged a “no first use” policy on nerve gas. The U.S. had already signed a treaty restricting chemical weapons, but the Senate had not ratified it.
The nerve gas, sarin, is the same gas used three years ago in a deadly terrorist subway attack in Japan.
Several officers who served in Operation Tailwind told the premiere episode of “NewsStand: CNN & Time” that the government liked to call the gas “incapacitating gas” or “knockout gas”–but that its true makeup was widely known.
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Note: So does it surprise you that the US lied about the Sarin gas in Syria. They had it done to them blame Assad. WTFU America.
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