This 1998 Washington Times clipping documents the public controversy surrounding CNN and Time magazine's since-retracted claim that U.S. forces used sarin nerve gas and killed American defectors during Operation Tailwind, a 1970 covert MACV-SOG raid into Laos. Veterans of the operation, including a participating medic, publicly disputed the allegations, stating that supporting aircraft had dropped tear gas — a controversy that led to a Pentagon investigation and CNN's eventual retraction of the story. Project: 219318