CIA Posts Chemical, Biological Incident Handbook

By Anne Plummer / November 1, 2001 at 5:00 AM
The CIA yesterday posted on its web site a 1998 handbook on handling weapons of mass destruction. The unclassified publication has been widely distributed by the agency in recent years as a resource to anyone interested, but was posted to the Internet only recently because of the increased interest by the public in biological and chemical weapons, a CIA spokesman said today. The "Chemical, Biological, Radiological Incident Handbook" is dated October 1998, but was first put together by an interagency...

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