The CIA Headquarters did not approve these methods in advance, the report says.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the Palestinians and international powers earlier Thursday that any action to advance the report would be a denial of Israel's "right to self-defense" and would kill any chance of peace talks.
Palestinian officials defended their earlier support for a deferral of the vote, saying Israel's allies would have vetoed moves to advance the report, while a delay gave the Palestinian leadership time to raise international support.
"Writers promised to end the drought for a price, usually to be paid in advance," the report said.
Roughly 200 people in eastern Aleppo were injured in the attacks, in which helicopters dropped chlorine cylinders in neighborhoods where government forces planned to advance, the report said.
"Despite exciting advances, the report shows that we cannot treat our way out of the cancer problem.
"Despite exciting advances, the report shows that we cannot treat our way out if the cancer problem," said Dr Christopher Wild, director if the International Agency for Research on Cancer and joint author of the report.
The decision, made under American pressure after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel threatened that advancing the report would end any chance of peace talks, prompted a strong reaction against the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
Talks up until that point had been very advanced, the report says, but eventually broke down because of financial difficulties faced by both MS and Nokia.
With the Human Rights Council out of the picture for the time being, he said, they are seeking other avenues to advance the Goldstone report.
Analyses of data linked from the different sources described above would further advance the research reported here.
