Gassed in the Gulf; The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-Up of Gulf War Syndrome
Washington, DC: Insignia Pub. Co., 1997. First Hardcover Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. xxxiv, 347, [1] pages. Illustrations. Map. Appendices. Glossary of Terms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. TLS from the author laid in, with author's business card paperclipped to it. The laid in letter to Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post discusses research conducted by the author. Patrick Eddington is an American author, policy analyst in national security and civil liberties at the Cato Institute, who served previously as a CIA military imagery analyst (National Photographic Interpretation Center) from 1988 to 1996.
During his tenure at the CIA, his analytical assignments included monitoring the breakup of the former Soviet Union; providing military assessments to policy makers on Iraqi and Iranian conventional forces and coordinating the CIA's military targeting support to NATO during Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia in 1995. Eddington resigned in 1996 after working on the book Gassed in the Gulf: The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA Cover-up of Gulf War Syndrome, in which he presented the claim of substantial evidence that American soldiers were exposed to chemical agents during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 From 2004 to 2014, he served as communications director and later as senior policy adviser to Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ). The first book about Gulf War Syndrome. An intensely personal account of the struggle of two dedicated public servants to expose one of the largest government cover-ups of modern history. A former CIA analyst exposes the officially sanctioned deceptions that have made Gulf War veterans the walking wounded of Desert Storm. Unearthing hundreds of classified documents detailing the locations of Iraqi chemical munitions destroyed by American forces after the Gulf War, Eddington argues that tens of thousands of American troops had been exposed to deadly chemical agents. Those chemicals may be at least partly responsible for the chronic illnesses suffered by more than 100,000 Desert Storm veterans... and for the birth defects among so many of their postwar children. An intensely personal account of the struggle of two dedicated public servants to expose one of the largest government cover-ups in modern times. "This first person account wades through a sea of military acronyms and seeming double-talk in order to detail the evidence (of chemical exposures in the Gulf War)", -- Publishers Weekly. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: CIA, Desert Storm, Gulf War Syndrome, CIA, Iraq, Gordon Oehler, Khamisiyah, Persian Gulf War, Jim Hoagland, Chemical Exposure
ISBN: 0965240037
[Book #19433]
Price: $150.00