"But the CIA documents, which sat almost entirely unnoticed in a
trove of declassified material at the National Archives in College Park, Md.,
combined with exclusive interviews with former intelligence officials, reveal
new details about the depth of the United States' knowledge of how and when Iraq
employed the deadly agents. They show that senior U.S. officials were being
regularly informed about the scale of the nerve gas attacks. They are tantamount
to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome
chemical weapons attacks ever launched."