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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 21:14:31 -0800
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Subject: Bypassing the real-time coverup

AP.national (10-31) 03:25:00

Report: Publisher To Release Secret Gulf War Data On Internet

NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 200 government documents about Iraqi chemical
weapons removed from a Defense Department Internet site earlier this year
are expected to be made public again, The New York Times reported today.

Publisher Bruce Kletz, of Washington-based Insignia Publishing, told the
newspaper he would defy the Pentagon and the CIA and make the documents
available on his Internet site beginning Friday.

The 226 documents detail the possible release of Iraqi chemical and
biological weapons near American troops during the 1991 Persian Gulf War,
the newspaper said.

The documents were available earlier this year on a Defense Department
Internet site known as Gulflink, but were removed at the CIA's request.

Kletz declined to tell the Times how he obtained the documents. He said he
decided to publish the papers on the Internet because he was convinced
government leaders are ``trying to hide the documents only to avoid
political and personal embarrassment.''

Kletz also plans to publish a book by a former CIA analyst, Patrick
Eddington, who has accused the CIA of sitting on classified documents that
showed American troops were exposed to Iraqi chemical weapons during the
war.

CIA spokesman Rick Aborn said he did not know whether the agency would
consider legal action to block the documents' release.

A Defense Department spokesman, Bryan Whitman, said the department had no
comment on Kletz's plans.



Insignia Publishing's Internet site: http://www.insigniausa.com.