A 1998 newspaper article documents retired Lt. Col. Eugene McCarley's public rebuttal of the CNN/Time 'Valley of Death' report, which had alleged that his Operation Tailwind task force used nerve gas and killed American defectors in Laos in 1970. CNN later retracted the story. This clipping, preserved in the Gene McCarley Collection, is a primary-source record of the controversy that followed one of MACV-SOG's most storied missions. Project: 219472