Operation TAILWIND -- Excerpts from 1970 Command History, Studies and Observations Group, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACSOG)

The following excerpts from Annex B of the 1970 Command History of MACSOG describe the group's activities relating to Operation TAILWIND. The Archive is posting these excerpts in response to the great interest in the retracted CNN report alleging U.S. military use of nerve gas against U.S. defectors in Laos during the Vietnam war.

The document was provided by National Security Archive Senior Fellow Dr. John Prados, who is director of the Archive's Vietnam project.

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