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6A NEWS/The Charlotte Post December 5,1996: Illness hits black vets harder By Ed Wendt HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES Department of Defense docu ments obtained by the Houston Forward Times reveal that black soldiers may be among those most affected by war- related illnesses according to a study of Gulf War veterans. The documents came to light as the CIA agrees to investigate reports that the government covered up evidence of possible troop exposure to Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Former CIA agents Patrick and Robin Eddington recently said they had found evidence of up to 60 separate incidents in which nerve gas or other chemi cal weapons were released near U.S. troops. But they said CIA higher-ups had tried to prevent them from pursuing their per sonal investigation and that going ahead with it in effect destroyed their careers. The Eddingtons, who are married, resigned from the CIA earlier this year. They are now suing the government as well as writ ing a book about their case. Patrick Eddington said he is convinced that a government cover-up is stiU imderway and is leading the call for a congres sional investigation. He pointed to 58 classified cables and logs he said showed Iraq had deployed chemical ammimitions into the Kuwaiti areas of opera tion. He has accused the CIA of trying to hide the information and cover up what he considers is criminal negligence. He claimed the documents were given to a White House panel investigating Gulf War ill nesses only because he had pub licly insisted they be turned over. He added that the Pentagon and CIA were still hanging on to “literally tens of thousands of pages of miit logs,” as well as other materials he did not have the clearance to see. Shortly after serving in the Gulf War, many military men and women reported unex plained problems such as fatigue, muscle and joint pain, memory loss and severe headaches that have become known collectively as Gulf War Some trace Gulf War malady to Iraq’s chemical weapons syndrome. However, the U.S. government has denied claims that the illnesses are related to exposiue to Iraqi chemicals. According to the Department of Defense s tudy obtained by the Houston Forward Times, 697,000 U.S. armed service members were deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. Because of the massive num bers of reported illnesses by vet erans, the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs launched a Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program. By December 1995, 27,000 individ uals had enrolled in the pro gram. Eighty-eight percent of those participating in the program were male and 12 percent were female. 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