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33. Lt. Col. Cooper Rhodes memo to General Nichols, “Subject: Conference with
Mr. Willard B. Kille.” March 25, 1946. Groves Papers, NARA, via Griffiths
and Honicker.
34. Conference on Fluorine Residues, February 12, 1946, Groves Papers, NARA,
via Griffiths and Honicker.
35. Cooper B. Rhodes, Lt. Col. “Memorandum for the Files. Subject: Peach Crop
Cases (Kille et al. vs. DuPont), 2 May 1946. . . . Cc: General Groves, General
Nichols.” Groves Papers, NARA, via Honicker and Griffiths.
36. Groves to the Commanding General, Army Service Forces, Pentagon Building,
Washington, DC, August 27, 1945, Groves Papers, NARA.
37. Gen. Groves to Sen. McMahon, February 18, 1946, Groves Papers, NARA.
38. The note to Groves’s senior deputy includes a response, dated February 25,
1946. “General Groves: That firm of consulting chemists has been employed
by the plaintiffs in the ‘peach crop’ suits against DuPont, and Mr. Sadtler has
been very active in gathering evidence to present on behalf of the plaintiffs
in those suits.” Groves Papers, NARA, via Honicker and Griffiths.
39. Multiple taped author interviews with Philip Sadtler, March 1993. Also,
account from The Chemist (1965), pp. 349–350; that the Sadtler firm had
testified on behalf of Coca-Cola to say that cocaine was not a chemical
ingredient of the beverage.
40. Sadtler recalled that one of the agents he had met in the New Jersey orchards
later gave an account of their wartime sleuthing to the media. Joseph Marshall,
“How We Kept the Atomic Bomb Secret,” Saturday Evening Post,
November 10, 1945, includes the following story: “Once, in an East Coast
city, Agents Harold Jensen and Harold Zindle were maintaining constant
surveillance of an individual under suspicion of being involved with enemy
agents.” The Post story does not give the name of the person being tailed
but reports that the government agents believed the “subject . . . apparently
suspected he was under surveillance,” and so they built a fence to block
escape from the house via the rear. The published account concludes, “It is
presumed that the subject is still wondering why his neighbor decided to
put up the fence so suddenly, and his neighbor is wondering why the subject
did. And Security is still wondering whether the subject is a spy.” Sadtler
told this writer that he had no idea he was under surveillance but that on
one occasion, “I decided to take the car rather than the train and I jumped
the fence so they did not see me come out.” Sadtler was gutsy. He rented a
plane and flew over the DuPont works, to investigate the pollution, further
displeasing authorities. Author interview.
41. Interview with Joel Griffiths, first published in Griffiths and Bryson, “Fluoride,
Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb,” Waste Not: The Reporter for Rational
Resource Management, September 1997.
42. File. Lt. Col. Cooper B. Rhodes, “Kille et al. (12 Separate Cases) vs. DuPont.”
February 13, 1946, Groves Papers, NARA.
43. Groves to the Commanding General, Army Service Forces, Pentagon Building,
Washington, DC, August 27, 1945. Groves Papers, NARA.