DOW WILL IGNORE CAMPUS PROTESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200810002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 30, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200810002-5
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DOW WILL IGNORE
CAMPUS PROTESTS
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'Napalm Maker Reports Its 1 r- Small Portion of Sales
Recruiting Unaffected With total corporate sales
1 : running. a little over $1.3-bil-
this constituted less than
By GERD VVILCKE ' ? ? per cent, the spokesmen
Spokesmen for the bowl ?
Chemical Company, a napalm,
manufacturer, said yesterday ?
that campus demonstrati s
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universities.
The' said said the company had
no intention of curtailing the
drive or changing it. ?
Employe recruitment by the
large chemical producer ? has
been the target of protests at
a number of universities, in-
cluding Harvard and the Uni-
versities of Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin, because Dow
makes napalm used in the Viet-
nam war.
Dow is believed to be the
sole supplier of napalm B to
the Department of Defense for
use in Vietnam. Napalm B,
produced at the Dow plant in
Torrance, Calif., is composed of
gasoline (25 per cent), benzene
(25 per cent) and polystyrene
' (50 per cent).
The jelly-like substance,
dropped by aircraft, sticks to
whatever it touches ,sticks
burns
with such heat that all oxygen
in the immediate area is quick-
' ly exhausted.
Spokesmen at the company's
Midland, Mich., headquarters
said Dow's . sales of napalm to
the ? Government came to- less
1.!thent.$6.5-mil1ion laslyeig. ? ?
?
, stressed. They estimated that
all the company's Government
f contracts made up less than
5 per cent of its sales in 1966.
; From Pentagon sources it was
learned that Dow produced
54,620 tons of napalm B last
year, an awn-age of about 4,550
tons a vnonth. The average
,i
mor.vnly total from January to
June this year came to 3,691
? tons. The cost of the napalm
,'Prv t...11s year was $2,949,928.
?At comparison, the total
' .ef u an ti ty of napalm used in
Korea was 32,215 tons.
Regarding the recruitment
drive, Dow said company of-
ficials interviewed 24,000
graduates during 1966. Job con-
tracts were signed with 1,310
students. Figures for this year
were not available.
The spokesmen said Dow re-
cruiters were told not to engage
In political debate with demon-
strators. Because the recruit-
ters are guests of a university,
they are instructed to cooper-
ate with campus officials.
Dow said the
magt o ,a
sTatemtn_t_gdzing e company's
AM& on napalm. The state-
ment says:
"We are a supplier to the
Department of Defense and to
4 dozens of firms manufacturing
items of military equipment
ranging from aircraft ? compo-
nents to medicines and food.
One of the products we supply
Is napalm B.
? "The United States Is in-
I volved in Vietnam. As long as
we are involved we believe in
? fulfilling our responsibility to
this national commitment of a
\ democratic society. And we do
this because we believe in the
lonit-term goals of our country,
"We. respect the right of
people to protest peacefully
against an action with which
they disagree. However, our
company has made the decision
tb continue id produce napalm
' B and other materials as long
A as they are needed by our
Government" ,
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200810002-5