Lauranimal said:
I am hitting a dead end. There is no technical data to back up the statement.
From Val Valerian's "Analytical Chronology of Fluoridation: Politics versus Science" (Nov 1997):
1942 Germany becomes the world's largest producer of aluminum (and Sodium Fluoride). Fluoride is used in IG Farben managed concentration camps to render the prisoners docile and inhibit the questioning of authority. It is quite conceivable that this knowledge was brought back to the United States Government under the auspices of Operation Paperclip (1944) and Project 63, which lasted almost 35 years, where Nazi scientists, engineers, technicians, and intelligence personnel were brought to the United States and integrated into the military industrial complex, already under Rockefeller and IG Farbenindustrie control. (Ref book: "The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben" by Joseph Borkin).
I am not a fan of the source but this reference book regarding the history of fluoride/fluoridation appears to be very good. Next, these two entries:
1944 Through 1948. Previously classified documents from the Manhattan Project which indicate the government knew the physiological and psych-behavioral effects of fluorides, as a result of studies connected with determining of uranium hexafluoride processing on workers, as well as studies in defense of litigation against the project by tree growers who experienced fluoride damage from airborne pollutants connected with the project. Ref Declassified documents from the National Archives published in 1997.
1944 An April 29, 1944 Manhattan Project memo, released in 1997, states "Clinical evidence suggests that uranium hexafluoride may have a rather marked central nervous system effect, with mental confusion, drowsiness, and lassitude as the conspicuous features... it seems that the fluoride component is the causative factor... since work with these compounds is essential, it will be necessary to know in advance what mental effects may occur after exposure, if workmen are to be properly protected. This is important not only to protect a given individual, but also to prevent a confused workman from injuring others by improperly performing his duties." Ref Previously classified SECRET Manhattan Project Memo 29 April 1944, declassified and released from the National Archives.
I have NOT checked these references. Statements/writings by Bernays may be helpful.
Edit: Ref date and the following 1997 entry:
1997 A 1944 World War II Manhattan Project classified report on water fluoridation is found to be missing from the files of the University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project, the US National archives, and the Nuclear Repository at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, by researcher Clifford Honiker, Executive Director of the American Environmental Health Studies Project in Knoxville Tennessee, which provided key evidence in the public exposure and prosecution of US human radiation experiments.