Following are various no-nonsense comments regarding the non-factual CNN report aired June 7, 1998: (Mad Hatter Articles can be found by clicking here)
Nerve
Gas, CNN, and Honor by Perry M. Smith ‘56
CNN’s
Tailwind Program Disinformation Disproved 6/8/98
Washington
Times Editorial Reports "Only Rumors . . . Sarin"6/9/98
Nerve Gas
Used In Laos !!! 6/10/98
Objective and balanced
reporting ????6/10/98
Sarin
Never Used 6/11/98
The
National Security Archive
Excerpts
from 1970 Command History
CNN's
deceitful Vietnam expose-WorldNetDaily (Tom Marzullo makes a point)
6/12/98
CNN
military adviser resigns over 'Tailwind'-WorldNetDaily
6/15/98
List
of Tailwind B company personnel & Annex B from Steve Sherman
6/16/98
NewStand
transcript 6/7/98
NewsStand
transcript 6/14/98
Did
The U.S. Drop Nerve Gas? from TIME Magazine June 15, 1998
Major
General Perry Smith publishes resignation 6/16/98
Defending
America (Hackworth) 6/17/98
Walter
Robert (Bob) Lewelling, MSG, U.S. Army SF(Retired) to Ambassador Godley
6/17/98
Operation
Tailwind by Ray Smith 6/18/98
CNN
threatens former military adviser-WorldNetDaily 6/18/98
Letter
to the Chairman of CNN - AIM
Letter
to TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson AIM 6/19/98
Heads
May Roll at CNN Over Nerve Gas Charges AIM 6/22/98
Pentagon
Probes Nerve GasAllegations 6/22/98
U.S. Ambassador
(ret) Godley debunks the CNN-Time Warner news report 6/22/98
News
articles relating to Tailwind and CNN drivel 6/22/98
Media
Monitors and Columns - AIM
Time,
CNN investigate accuracy of joint nerve gas report - AP
6/23/98
Doubts
are raised about whether sarin was used - TIME 6/23/98
Must Moral Standards Be The
First Casualty Of War? - New Orleans Times-Picayune
6/23/98
Poison
Gas Use By U.S.? Not Likely - Long Island Newsday
6/23/98
Prepared
Statement by Cdr Chip Beck, USNR (ret) 6/23/98
Letter
to The Weekly Standard AIM 6/24/98
Panel of
experts raise serious objections to a CNN/Time Magazine story - by Mike
Billington 6/24/98
Poison
pen (scroll to dates at bottom of page) - Jewish World Review
6/24/98
Nerve-Gas Story Clouds
Arnett's Career - Washington Times
6/26/98
James Graves statement
6/26/98
Overview
of the SFA/SOA News Conference 26 JUNE 1998
A war
tale touches a nerve - News & Observer (by Dennis Rogers)6/30/98
Report
on CNN Broadcast - Abrams 7/2/98
Report
on CNN Broadcast - CNN 7/6/98
Score
one for the Internet-WorldNetDaily 7/6/98
Feldman letter to Parsons
(Time Warner, Inc.) 7/6/98
Laritz letter to Lavin
(Time Warner, Inc.) 7/7/98
CNN
Staffers Wait for the Other Shoe to Drop - Washington Post
7/7/98
Transcript
of Charlie Rose's show on 7/6/98 (unconfirmed)
Defending
America Newsletter 8 July 98
An
open letter to the American Legion - by Marzullo 7/9/98
CNN
-- the comedy news network-WorldNetDaily 7/9/98
Letter for people to use
on Operation: CNN Congressional Inquiry
Veteran
newsman Shaw leaving CNN
Update
on the Tailwind Investigation - Jake Jacobson 7/10/98
Jim Laritz's open letter
to Levin 7/10/98
Open
letter from Paul Campbell to Ted , Saddam Arnett, Oliver, & Smith
7/11/98
Arnett
more than news reader-WorldNetDaily 7/11/98
Why
the Time/CNN nerve-gas debacle was inevitable - (by ex-Times employee)
7/11/98
Laritz's reply to
Turner's response 7/13/98
CNN Sponsors of Tailwind
7/13/98
Marzullo's
open letter to the American Legion 7/13/98
Jim Laritz's 2nd open
letter to Levin 7/14/98
A
Commercial Nuisance Network ´´SPECIAL REPORT´´
- Free Republic 7/14/98
Emerson's letter
to Senator Kennedy 7/13/98
War
Crimes - Jim Paxton 7/15/98
Vietnam
Syndrome - Free Republic 7/17/98
Letters to CNN
folks from Jeff Fuller (ex-5th SFG(A) Deputy Commander - 7/17/98
Copy of Gov. Whitman's
message - 7/17/98
Questions Not Asked
and Those That Go Unanswered - PaulCampbell 7/18/98
'It
didn't happen like that' - St. Petersburg Times 7/18/98
An
Open Letter to the American People - Walter Emerson/Paul Campbell
7/19/98
TO-ARMS!
- Don Valentine 7/20/98
Dept.
of Defense Review of Allegations Concerning "OPERATION TAILWIND"
- CNN 7/21/98
Cohen:
No nerve gas used in Operation Tailwind - CNN 7/21/98
CNN/TIME
"Valley of Death" Smear Proves Disastrous - Hackworth 7/21/98
Vietnam
Vets Rally Over CNN's "Crooked Gas Story" - Reagan Info Exchange
7/22/98
Summary
of Telephone Interview With the Honorable Melvin
Laird, former Secretary of Defense 7/23/98
Fox
News hires Drudge - you decide - San Francisco Examiner 7/23/98
Online
Vets Declare War on CNN - Free Republic 7/24/98
April's
Black Ops Defense 7/25/98
Humbled
by the Internet-Forbes 7/27/98
Patriotic
Granny's Boycott CNN Page!! 7/31/98
CNN
down, other cable news channels up in ratings - NY Daily News
7/31/98
The Next CNN
"Tailwind" - Tom Marzullo 8/1/98
Vietnam
Vet Sues CNN Over Tailwind Report - Court TV Online 8/6/98
Letters/Retraction
a lie - West Hawaii Today (Mik Sharp) 8/7/98
A
few pieces of silver-Forbes 8/10/98
An
Ill Tailwind - AJR Newslink 9/1/98
CNN's
Real Mistake - Eminentoes 9/4/98
More US veterans sue Time, CNN
for gas story - 9/17/98
CBS
drama to rehash CNN big blunder on Vietnam story - 10/16/98
Nerve
Gas, CNN and Honor by Perry Smith
CNN/Tailwind SponsorsMedia
SFA Chapter websitesGovernment Contacts |
Tailwind:
Oliver-Smith rebuttal to CNN Abrams/Kohler report - Freedom Forum OnLine
7/22/98
THE
POWs, CIA and Drugs Uglier Truths Behind The Sarin Gas Stories - Michael
C. Ruppert Published 7-23-98
Transcript of Oliver-Smith
program on CNN retraction of nerve-gas story-
Freedom Forum 7/24/98