American Diplomats Dismissed Vietnamese Scientists Who Reported on Horrific Health and Environmental Effects of Agent Orange as Late as the Early 2000s

Dr. Ton That Tung was a world-renowned doctor who performed the first heart surgery in Vietnam in 1958 and invented a new liver surgery method that minimized internal bleeding by shortening the operation to only four to eight minutes.

When Dr. Ton and his colleagues raised alarms about the pernicious effects of Agent Orange and its connection to liver disease during the Vietnam War, U.S. diplomats called him and his colleagues “propagandists, liars and communists seeking to discredit the United States.”