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Ordnance Missile Test Facility, White Sands, NM Office of Naval Intelligency Fr desgn for SnCl, smoke-producing agent of WWI Ordnance Pamphlet... 

An article in the March 15, 1991, issue of The Washington Post2 described the latest annual report of the Office of Naval Intelligence, listing 14 nations with an offensive chemical-warfare capability the list included Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, and South Korea, 4 nations that receive large quantities of military aid from the United States. Four additional nations (Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Africa, and Thailand) were purported to possibly possess such... 

Ruth M. Doherty received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Maryland. She is currently technical advisor for the Energetic Materials Research and Technology Department, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland. Since 1983, she has coauthored about 60 publications on physical chemistry. In the past 6 years. Dr. Doherty has given 20 presentations on various aspects of the science and technology of explosives. In 1998 and 1999, she delivered a series of lectures on explosives technology for members of the Office of Naval Intelligence. For more than 15 years, she has been involved in research and development of energetics materials and explosives at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. 

The simple fact was that the British Intelhgence Service didn t trust him and never had. Nor did others. A 1918 report compiled by the US Navy s Office of Naval Intelligence probably came closest to the mark when it labeled him and his dubious cronies as international confidence men of the highest class (Spence, 2002 144). Reilly was always more a con man and crook than a spy. Bribery, blackmail and even murder were his standard operating procedure. As we shall see, Reilly s System mimicked that of his erstwhile employer and probable mentor, Basil Zaharoff... 

P. Peterson, The Heat-Tight Vessel, University of Lund, Sweden (1951), Office of Naval Intelligence Translation No. 1147 (1953). 

Pardee, W.J., ShafF, M.A., Hayes-Roth, B. Intelligent Processing of Carbon-Carbon Composites Final Technical Report (1990) Contract No. N00014-87-C-0724, 135, Office of Naval Research, Arlington Virginia... 

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF EAR 9628238) and the Office of Naval Research. The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers and Randy Cygan for their insightful comments, intelligent suggestions and careful editing. The authors would like to thank A. E. Bence for reviewing the contents of the manuscript. 

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