10-30-96. NYR Page One: "Ex-CIA Analysts Assert Cover-Up. Contend Agency Knew of Risk From Chemicals in Gulf War." When they insisted on pursuing the inquiry over the protests of senior officials, their promising careers were effectively destroyed. Their inquiry attracted concern at the highest levels of the agencies, including DCI Deutch. Government officials who had overseen investigations of gulf war illnesses "are continuing to lie, are continuing to withhold information." The couple met when they were both studying at the agency's photo-analysis school. She was placed in a fellowship program that singles out fast-rising female employees and offers experience in other agencies of the Government. She found work on Capitol Hill in the offices of the Senate Banking Committee. She was assigned to interview the gulf veterans who were calling the committee. She took home one report. She handed it to her husband, with the announcement, "Hey, we got gassed." He decided to start his own unauthorized investigation on the issue, gathering information from within the C.I.A. He said he had prevailed upon friends working in other parts of the agency to search through computers banks. "We just plugged in key words dealing with chemical and munitions storage," he said, "and we just began to pull up all this cable traffic." ----- http://jya.com/gassed.txt (16 kb) GAS_sed