CIA Director Says No Coverup About Gulf War

The files were first placed on the Pentagon's Gulf-Link Internet site,but the CIA requested that the files be removed. Now, they're back on the'Net, and the man who put them there claims the government isn't tellingall they know about what could be making Gulf War veterans sick.

Patricia Harris spent eight months in Saudi Arabia and Iraq during thePersian Gulf War. She says she first felt sick while she was still in theMid-east.

Harris says she felt even worse when she returned home. Eventually,headaches, rashes and muscle tremors put and end to her 15-year Armycareer.

Thousands of Gulf War veterans are still wondering just what they wereexposed to during the war and if whatever it was is what's making themsick.

While the new information on the Internet does notprove U.S. troops were exposed to chemical or biological agents, it doesshow the threat was real.

Harris is convinced she and other military personnel were exposed toharmful chemicals, and that the government knows more than it's revealing.

The CIA announced Friday at a news conference that it has found noevidence Iraq used chemical weapons against U.S. troops during the GulfWar, but it did say some troops may have been exposed to nerve gas duringthe destruction of an Iraqi ammunition dump in 1991.

The same publisher who put the information on the Internet plans to putout a book by a former CIA analyst who claims the agency has hiddenevidence of American troops exposure to chemical weapons.