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Article: Commandos reject report of Vietnam-era sarin attack.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1998
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The officer who planned "Operation Tailwind" in 1970 is disputing a CNN-Time report that the mission used deadly sarin gas, killing women, children and American defectors in a raid on a North Vietnamese military base in Laos.
"[The commandos] headed for the club and had a beer" immediately after the mission, said retired Army Col. John "Skip" Sadler, now 70 and living in San Antonio. "If they had had that amount of sarin on them, they would have been dead or in the hospital. It doesn't make sense."
Col. Sadler, in his first interview on the contested CNN-Time report, joined other ex-members of a special forces organization called Studies and ...