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— George Orwell, 1946

COMMENT: The rav­ages of the high­ly tox­ic defo­liant Agent Orange are well doc­u­ment­ed, felling Amer­i­can G.I.‘s and Viet­namese and Laot­ian com­bat­ants and civil­ians. The toll is ever-mount­ing as diox­in is part of the South­east Asian land­scape and water­scape now, and a vari­ety of hor­rors con­tin­ue to plague the res­i­dents of that area.

What has not received as much pub­lic­i­ty is the doc­u­ment­ed fact that the poi­son was devel­oped by Friedrich “Fritz” Hoff­man, one of the Third Reich alum­ni brought to the U.S. under Project [or “Oper­a­tion”] Paper­clip.

” . . . . Under the umbrel­la of the CIA’s Secu­ri­ty Research Ser­vices, [CIA orga­ni­za­tion] Mor­wede was among the front orga­ni­za­tions pro­tect­ing Nazi chemists trans­port­ed to the US, includ­ing Dr. Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Hoff­man, a major ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the largesse of the Paper­clip pipeline.

“In the late ‘50s, Hoffmann’s work for the CIA and Fort Det­rick includ­ed devel­op­ment of lethal chem­i­cal agents to be used as weapons in Viet­nam, proof that the dis­hon­or­able was just over the hori­zon when John Kennedy took office. One of these weapons, the hor­rif­ic and now-infa­mous Agent Orange, was autho­rized for use in Viet­nam in Novem­ber 1961 (imple­ment­ed in ’62 under Oper­a­tion Ranch Hand) . . .  By 1962, . . . Dow Chem­i­cal, was mass-pro­duc­ing Agent Orange under spec­i­fi­ca­tions per­fect­ed by Hoff­mann and his team at Fort Det­rick. . . .”

Hoff­man’s imprint on the research con­tin­ues to be felt, guid­ing those on the path­way to obtain­ing com­pen­sa­tion for the poi­son’s destruc­tive effects.

“. . . . Fritz Hoff­man was one of the ear­li­est known U.S. Army Chem­i­cal Corps sci­en­tists to research the tox­ic effects of dioxin—possibly in the mid-1950s but for cer­tain in 1959—as indi­cat­ed in what ha become known as the Hoff­mann Trip Report. This doc­u­ment is used in almost every legal record per­tain­ing to lit­i­ga­tion by U.S. mil­i­tary vet­er­ans against the U.S. gov­ern­ment and chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers for its usage of her­bi­cides and defo­liants in the Viet­nam War. . . .”

1. Coup In Dal­las: The Deci­sive Inves­ti­ga­tion into Who Killed JFK by H.P. Albarel­li, Jr. (For­ward by Dick Rus­sell); Sky­horse Pub­lish­ing [HC]; Copy­right 2021 by H.P. Albarel­li, Jr. and Lin­da O’Hara; ISBN 978–1‑5107–4031‑0; pp. 185–186.

. . . . Under the umbrel­la of the CIA’s Secu­ri­ty Research Ser­vices, [CIA orga­ni­za­tion] Mor­wede was among the front orga­ni­za­tions pro­tect­ing Nazi chemists trans­port­ed to the US, includ­ing Dr. Friedrich “Fritz” Hoff­man, a major ben­e­fi­cia­ry of the largesse of the Paper­clip pipeline.

In the late ‘50s, Hoffmann’s work for the CIA and Fort Det­rick includ­ed devel­op­ment of lethal chem­i­cal agents to be used as weapons in Viet­nam, proof that the dis­hon­or­able was just over the hori­zon when John Kennedy took office. One of these weapons, the hor­rif­ic and now-infa­mous Agent Orange, was autho­rized for use in Viet­nam in Novem­ber 1961 (imple­ment­ed in ’62 under Oper­a­tion Ranch Hand), with the stat­ed objec­tive of “improv­ing road and water­way vis­i­bil­i­ty and clear camp perime­ters” so that “greater num­bers of ene­my troops could be killed.” A year ear­li­er, two of the nation’s lead­ing cor­po­ra­tions, Schlum­berg­er Ltd. of Hous­ton, TX, and Dow Chem­i­cal of Mid­land, MI, com­bined forces to form a shared divi­sion named Dow­ell Schlum­berg­er, to pro­vide exper­tise and pump­ing ser­vices for the US oil indus­try, which would, of course, thrive dur­ing (the impend­ing) all-out war in South­east Asia. By 1962, Dowell’s par­ent, Dow Chem­i­cal, was mass-pro­duc­ing Agent Orange under spec­i­fi­ca­tions per­fect­ed by Hoff­mann and his team at Fort Det­rick. . . .

2. Oper­a­tion Paper­clip  by Annie Jacob­sen; HC Lit­tle, Brown and Com­pa­ny; Copy­right 2014 by Anne M. Jacob­sen; ISBN 978–0‑316–22104‑7; p. 388.

. . . . Fritz Hoff­man was one of the ear­li­est known U.S. Army Chem­i­cal Corps sci­en­tists to research the tox­ic effects of dioxin—possibly in the mid-1950s but for cer­tain in 1959—as indi­cat­ed in what ha become known as the Hoff­mann Trip Report. This doc­u­ment is used in almost every legal record per­tain­ing to lit­i­ga­tion by U.S. mil­i­tary vet­er­ans against the U.S. gov­ern­ment and chem­i­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers for its usage of her­bi­cides and defo­liants in the Viet­nam War. . . .