CHEMICAL WARFARE TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000700060004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Phis pocument pontains information afeCtin6 the Na
tioneA Define of the United Stites, within the mesn-
ing of Title 18,_ Sections 783 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
dmehded. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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30 April_ 1953
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
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instruction on
chemical eq'aipment and praet to o ..t?,4,. way are go Two lectures on
impregnated pr?Jta otil'e -`~1othitg were given, and one and two-piece suits and
a r is ,r ,G4 protective cape were shown to the EM at that time. The suite
and cape were light 'yellow and were %414asant to the touch. Protective
d
en so eso
length, boots were of the same valor and had rubber heels aLnd woo
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During these exercieee theme was also some
choking., and 'blister gapes,, The
masks and were expos
underground bunker.
instruction given on team .asap,
unit. wore "Sh'lem type gas
sroncentration of tear gas in an
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sed ih the 2d Tank Regt. was of Soviet manu-,
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# "we consisted. of a gray rv aber face-piece, A corrugated
cafe, a canister- and a gas mask 'arrier? In the canister there were
go1tp, charcoal, and certain chemicals. A metal screw cap in the
bottom of the canister, which had 15 swages,'was detached when the
mask was donned'.
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* 3mdke pots that gave off greenish
during the seer field exercises
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in 1949 and 1950 it was SOF in the 2d Tank Regt. to have a gas mask
d weir Wednesday. Officers and EM of the 2d Tank Regt.. in both
the caserne and training areas had to have their gas masks on their
persona from reveille to retreat . The' signal for a gas alarm Was a
d.longed sounding of a siren. There was no chemical officer or
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