[C. I. A. - EXPOSURE TO AGENT ORANGE -(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84B00890R000700020077-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 28, 2005
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: June 24, 1981
• Content Type: LETTER

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OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from -whom
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The Honorable William V. Chappell, Jr.
523 N. Halifax
Daytona Beach, Florida 32018
Re: C.I.A. - Exposure to Agent Orange -
Dear Mr. Chappell:
According to C.I.A. records
inquiry to the Director dated 3 September 1980. On
26 September
1980, the Director of Personnel Policy, Planning, and Manage-
ment sent an interim reply. Apparently
Public Affairs Office on 29 September 1980 and was advised that
the interim letter was on the way. On 2 November 1980 he sent
another letter to the Director of Personnel Policy, Planning,
and Management stating that he had received no further communi-
again spoke with the Public Affairs Office
on 18 November 1980 and was advised he would be called on
19 November 1980. On that date, the Acting Director of Medical
Services,
advised him by phone that the
Agency was trying to ascertain if he had been exposed and dis-
cussed the status of the U.S. Government effort regarding Agent
Orange. The Agency had been monitoring developments in the
Agent Orange controversy since the formation of the Health and
Human Services Task Force in December 1979.
It was ascertained from the Office of Research and Engineering,
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Secretary of Defense, that Agent Orange was not used in Laos until
December 1965, which was well after
He was so advised on 22 December 1980 in a letter from the
Director of Personnel Policy, Planning, and Management. In early
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had again called and had been informed that
he had not been exposed to Agent Orange.
On 26 June 1981 the Office of Medical Services reconfirmed
December 1965 as the date of initial use of Agent Orange in Laos
with the Office of Research and Engineering, Secretary of Defense.
It should be noted that Agent Orange has yet to be con-
clusively implicated as a cause of any medical problem other
than a severe skin condition under circumstances of heavy
exposure. There is b an unconfirmed association with lymphoma
and soft tissue sarcoma which are both cancers. No case yet
has been made for an association of Agent Orange with the
medical condition reported
As requested, the correspondence enclosed with your June 18,
1981, letter is being returned. Also enclosed are copies of the
two responses sent by this agency to
and December'1980.
Sincerely,
in September STAT
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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