Well, I was able to find this:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-09-30-iraq-ushelp_x.htm Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from Uncle Sam two decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent samples directly to several Iraqi sites that U.N. weapons inspectors determined were part of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program, CDC and congressional records from the early 1990s show. Iraq had ordered the samples, claiming it needed them for legitimate medical research.
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The exports were legal at the time and approved under a program administered by the Commerce Department. "I don't think it would be accurate to say the United States government deliberately provided seed stocks to the Iraqis' biological weapons programs," said Jonathan Tucker, a former U.N. biological weapons inspector. "But they did deliver samples that Iraq said had a legitimate public health purpose, which I think was naive to believe, even at the time."
So are you trying to refute my claim or support it?
The USA today article claims that the shipments were legal under policies of the Commerce Department and aproved by the CDC.
But "JANES.COM" says that President Bush authorized them while he headed the CIA and Vice Presidency. Janes.com is also very vague in its description of the Congressional report by Congressman Donald Riegle, and i couldn't find anything elso on that report on google with the information they gave.
My theory, either Janes.com is misconstrued the actual contents of the report, or the congressional report itself is incorrect. I see no reason why a CIA director or Vice President would have to personnally authurize a completly legal (and rather irrelevant) transaction under the commerce department, and only needs the approval of a midlevel desk jockey at the CDC.
I will keep looking for the Congressional Report.