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our use of unique collection assets, and in our ability to 

 collect and assimilate vast quantities of information. 



For example, CIA analysts assessed the scope of the 

 unprecedented environmental damage which occurred when Iraqi 

 forces sabotaged Kuwaiti oil fields last year." Agency 

 specialists used enhanced commercial weather satellite imagery to 

 track daily oil slick movements in the gulf and. they used unique 

 collection systems and commercially-available Landsat imagery to 

 verify the number, location, and status of the burning oil wells 

 in Kuwait. The dita used by CENTCOM in the bombing that stopped 

 the flow of oil into the Gulf was provided by intelligence. The 

 CIA worked with private experts to develop and build a computer 

 model capable of projecting concentrations of key pollutemts-- 

 primarily sulfur dioxide and particulates— and their impact on 

 human health and crops. 



Since the late 1980s, the Intelligence Community has been 

 contributing to OS government efforts to work with other 

 coxintries to protect the global environment from a host of 

 threats: 



o Ozone depletion, which poses risks of increased skin 

 cancer, blindness, declining agricultural yields, and 



