YELLOW RAIN: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606280007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: June 22, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/27: CIA-RDP90-00552R000606280007-4
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the case aren't among them. No matter variety of Khmer, Hmong and Afghan ref- Agent orange rr- ent,destroyed the
bow hard those who prefer to see and hear ugees, ranging from little children to the ing to the Soviet argum
and speak no evil may .try, the evidence elderly, natural vegetation andled:to the growth of
simply cannot be explained away. Their accounts of )yellow =rain" attacks -elephant grasses that produced the toxins
It is not just the UnitedStates butalso '-am particularly convincing in that they in.question.-Tbese deadlypoisons, the Sovi-
Canada, Britain,- rAustra]ia; aChina end , , :usually not ;volrtteersd but 8re reI Rets,go %ostile on to Hmong and claim, are n thetng er'regions ` carried into
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.Thailand , a ong others which have found reeled only -when ia 4octor-asks the Te1u-
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what illegal chemical ~waz`fateIs beingatsed adirectly about their sysnptarns?
-.ibAsia. Even the:Sortalistdoreign minister Refugee reportsare dismissed by'many i'~themmowhere else lSo at',ittotigiltingleseri?
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? rof France, who is -no 4nemy of Vietnam, people as inherently unreliable. This is ex-
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,recently announced that rance on Its own ,*ctly what happened-when4the-firsttstories
-viet Invention of inherently1mP1ausible`in-
;had ..firm and convincing evidence ' of:the "s:~egan to come-of Nazi-occupied