Key Gulf War Arms Logs Are Missing

More than three-quarters of the chemical weapons logs kept during the Persian Gulf War are missing, far more than the eight days’ worth previously disclosed, the Pentagon reported. A computer virus imported by an officer who brought some computer games to Gulf War headquarters may have wiped out half the logs, said the report, which was disclosed during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Two sets of the logs on disk and a paper copy shipped to U.S. Central Command headquarters in Florida after the war appear to have been lost from a safe in an office move. A third disk set and hard copy were lost from a safe at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.