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June 22, 1962

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'A Second Visit by U.S. Scientists to Israel’s Dimona Reactor'

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Ambassador Harman responds favorably to the suggestion of another US visit to Dimona.

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RG 59, DF, 884A.1901/6-2262. Originally published in Avner Cohen and William Burr, eds., National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #547 (April 21, 2016).

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2016-04-20

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Memorandum of Conversation

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