This June 25, 1998 Washington Times column, 'Valley of the Poison Pen' by Mona Charen, addresses the controversy surrounding CNN and Time magazine's discredited 'Valley of Death' report, which falsely alleged that American forces used Sarin nerve gas during Operation Tailwind, a 1970 covert MACV-SOG mission into Laos. The report was later retracted after an internal investigation found insufficient evidence, but the episode had a lasting impact on the veterans who took part in the operation, including members of the unit documented elsewhere in this collection. Project: 219318