Re: agent orange history?

[Michael Eckstein <me1065@worldnet.att.net>]

At 02:50 PM 2/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>any replies to her as well as to list.  thx.
>---
>>Tony
>>
>>I need a reference for my thesis and am hoping you may be able to
>>help.  I need to find out where the link between agent orange, dioxin
>>and the veterans was first documented, i.e. serious journals etc.
>>
>>Hope you can help!  If not could you bounce this onto the news group
>>for me.
>>
>>Ta
>>Louise Oram <plxlmo@pln1.life.nottingham.ac.uk>
>---
>
>hi louise, sorry I missed this for a few days.  I'm sure others can add
>more to this INCOMPLETE sketch, which has no cites to studies--sorry:
>
>mid-1960's:  "[U.S.] govt study conducted by Bionetics labs revealed that
>dioxin contaminated componennts of Agent Orange & other military
>defoiliants caused severe birth defects in the offspring of exposed
>animals.  the Bionetics report came to light in 1969, compounding reports
>of birth defects  & other reprod. damage in Vietnamese populations exposed
>to Agent Orange.  Public & scientific outrrage, coupled w/ congressional
>hearings..forced ban ...in 1970."  Carol vanStrum, 'Back to the Future:
>EPA Reinvents...', _Synthesis/Generation_ #7/8 summer '95 p. 35.  Ntl
>Acdemy of Sciences issued a report (their 1st?) in '74,  "..contain[s]
>considerable information about the effects..".  ('Toxic cloud over Seveso',
>_Nature_ 262:636-7 (19 Aug '76)).
>
>1950's & '60's:  Dow & Monsanto aware of 2,4,5-T's & dioxin's effects.
>e.g. both were tracking exposedworkers by the 1950's.  e.g. in 1965, Dow &
>V K Rowe experiments on prisoners in Holmsberg Prison, PA (pure dioxin put
>on skin, dose increased dramatically by Dr Klingman w./out Dow's
>knowledge).  (Liane C Casten, Chicago Media Watch: 'EPA Collusion w/
>Industry'  _Synthesis/Generation_ #7/8 summer '95 p. 78).
>
>
>
>Tony Tweedale
>Causality is a concept not subject to empirical demonstration. -David Hume
>(1711-'76)

Dear Louise,
Check out the following web sites, especially the Agent Orange Victims and
Families=In=Touch= site and the Affidavit of Cate Jenkins during the Ivy vs.
Diamond Shamrock suit.  The NAS site will also give you substantial
information which might give you what you need.

Best regards,
Mike Eckstein, Member - New Jersey Agent Orange Commission

The New Jersey Agent Orange Commission:
 http://whitetail.nji.com/~gfallon/aoc.htm

Agent Orange Victims and Families=In=Touch=:
 http://www.soft-vision.com/ao_vets
 http://www.soft-vision.com/ao_vets/ao.html (video);

The Veterans Voice of Austin, TX USA:
 http://www.vvoa.com

The National Academy of Sciences:
 http://www.nas.edu   -   Then click on Health and Medicine and look for the
Agent Orange Reports for 1993 and Update:1996;

The Dioxin HomePage:
 http://www.envirolink.org/issues/dioxin

Gary Moore's Homepage (Michigan Agent Orange Commission)
 http://www.bounce.to/gdmoore

Vietnam Veterans of America:
 http://www.vva.org

Association of Birth Defect Children:
 http://www.birthdefects.org

Veterans News and Information Service
 http;//www.vnis.com