NCP America

Subject: Formal Response – Transnational Complicity in the Chemical War Against Children

Dear David,

Thank you for confirming receipt of my message.

Let me be absolutely clear: this is not a routine complaint. This is formal documentation of your office’s awareness of an ongoing, internationally recognised chemical war against children — carried out through inherited TCDD (Agent Orange) exposure, buried by governments, and protected by profit.

You are now on record.

I am the daughter of a Vietnam veteran who served in one of the most heavily sprayed areas of the war. My body — and the lives of millions like mine — carries the legacy of that deployment: congenital defects, chronic illness, and generational harm. These are not personal tragedies. These are war crimes.

This case has already been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, citing:

• Crimes against humanity

• Inhumane acts

• Persecution of civilians based on inherited status

• Deliberate state and corporate obstruction of healthcare, justice, and recognition

And you should know this isn’t just a human rights case. It qualifies as Transnational Organized Crime under Executive Order 13581 (United States) — which defines TOC as criminal networks whose scale and coordination threaten global systems.

That applies here:

• U.S.-based chemical companies knowingly produced TCDD-laced defoliants.

• Governments, including yours, protected those corporations.

• Affected children were denied care across multiple countries.

• Regulatory bodies — like yours — coordinated silence.

Your note that “only one NCP handles a case” may suffice on paper. But in the real world, it reads as what it is: a jurisdictional excuse for global inaction.

This is not a domestic issue. It’s a chemical war crime. And by confirming awareness — and declining to act — the U.S. NCP has entered the chain of complicity.

I will not expect further correspondence from your office. The ICC will handle the rest. And when history asks who stood by while children were poisoned and silenced, your name — and this reply — will be on the record.

Dear Ms. Stevens,

Thank you for this message.

Contrary to your note below, as far as I can tell from a quick check, this note seems to be your first contact with the U.S. National Contact Point (NCP).

Normally one NCP, only, handles each specific instance in a lead role.

We understand that you originally submitted your complaint under the OECD Guidelines to the Australian NCP. They have contacted us about it. Until or unless NCPs make a decision to transfer your complaint from the Australian NCP to another country’s NCP, the Australian NCP should be your point of contact about it.

I expect that the U.S. NCP will not respond further to you about your complaint while it is pending with the Australian NCP.

Best, David

David B. Sullivan

U.S. National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines

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Senior Advisor for Corporate Social Responsibility

Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs

U.S. Department of State

+1 202/647-9453