Afghan resistance units have captured and photographed a number of Soviet chemical protective suits. antidote kits and gas masks contaminated with T2 mycotoxin residue (not indigenous to the region). Soviet prisoners and defectors have confirmed the use of at least nine different types of chemical weapons. including the deadly sarin. phosgene and soman. One young soldier. Anatoly Sakharov. described an agent called "smirch." which has 100 percent mortality. His description matches reports from DeBruin. doctors in Afghanistan and Hmong refugees from Laos who described these effects to PARADE. Yuriy Povarnitsyn. a Soviet military chemical specialist. reported performing autopsies on Afghan villagers and taking soil samples after attacks. His account corresponds to stories coming out of Laos regarding the Vietnamese.
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