The World - News from Feb. 14, 1989

West Germany’s foreign intelligence agency first learned of a possible West German business role in a Libyan poison gas project in 1980, government sources said in Bonn. They said the agency provided regular reports on the project and signs of West German involvement to the Bonn government for years afterward. The information gathered throughout the 1980s is included in a chronology of the Libya affair to be presented to Parliament on Wednesday by Chancellery Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. Bonn said last month that intelligence disclosures of the suspected chemical weapons plant first surfaced in August, 1987, but there was no indication then that German firms were implicated.