Haig, Alexander

December i96j-May 1968 Ambassador to Poland Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr. (Colonel)... 

Haig, A.M. (1982). Chemical Warfare in Southeast Asia and Afghanistan. Report to the Congress from Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., March 22, 1982. 

The then NATO Supreme Commander, General Alexander Haig, soon to become President Reagan s Secretary of State, told reporters in 1978 that NATO s ability to wage war with chemicals was very weak . Sometime in the near future, he said, this will have to be reassessed .38 His successor as Supreme Commander went further. We ought to be able to respond with chemical weapons , he said, and they ought to know we have that capacity to respond .39 Ten years after Nixon s decision to suspend the manufacture of chemical weapons, by the end of the so-called Disarmament Decade, the advocates of chemical rearmament included some of the most senior figures in the military establishment. 

Kissinger post-summit press briefing, n.d., Box 49, Haig Files, NPM James Thomson, interview on ABC television special, 27 February 1972 A. Doak Barnett and Alexander Eckstein, quoted in the Washington Post, 28 February 1972. 

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