India had assured Anderson safe passage: Former US diplomat - Economic Times

NEW DELHI: The Indian government had assured "safe passage" to then Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson after he expressed a desire to visit Bhopal to demonstrate concern over the 1984 deadly gas tragedy, the former deputy chief of mission of the US embassy has said.

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Now a visiting professor of economics at Emory University in the US, Gordon Streeb was the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in New Delhi when poisonous methyl-isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide pesticide plant on Dec 2-3 night, killing nearly 3,000 people instantly and many thousands over the years. Streeb recalled that Union Carbide contacted the embassy indicating that its chairman, Anderson, wanted to fly to India to see for himself what had happened and to show "concern for the victims" at the "highest level of the company".

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