MEETING WITH COL ROBINSON, HQDA DCSOPS ON 9 JULY 82

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 26, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: Meeting With COL Robinson, HQD~A DCSOPS on 9 July 82
3. Future Actions: As a result of the meeting, it was agreed
that:
.a. COL Robinson will arrange an office meeting for
iith MG Fulwyler, Chief, Nuclear and Chemical Directorate,
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b. will coordinate a briefing by CCL Robinson STAT
on the Army's W program to interested members of CIA.
c. I will become actively involved in the
current Army Science Board study on Research and Development..
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b. Chemical officer staffing has been added to major
allied and national military headquarters to include HQ. SHAPE, HQ
USAEUR, HQ RDJTF as well as to the major staff sections of HQDA.
c. Chemical personnel have been integrated into the
command structure at all levels in tactical organizations.
Companies are authorized chemical NCO's; battalions and higher
commands are authorized chemical officers and/or NCO's.
d. The number of chemical units has increased from small
detachments in 1977 to over 20 CEP. defense and smoke companies in
the active force today. Chemical units and personnel will const~
itute approximately two percent of the Army force. The high rate
of growth in chemical units will continue through at least 1988.
C. COL Robinson expressed concern over the unknowns
involved in CBOT and their impact on the battlefield. The USSR.
continued their research and development program through the 70's
while the US effort was greatly reduced. The USSR therefore may
have discovered new types of unconventional agents, possibly in
the form of toxins or genetic engineering products or discovered
--new characteristics of known BCW agen.ts which would provide them
an advantage. These unknowns could place US forces at a serious
disadvantage on the battlefield.
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