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February 8, 1961

Memorandum, Secretary of State Rusk for the President, 'Israeli Reactor'

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Rusk informs President Kennedy about the outcome of Assistant Secretary of State G. Lewis Jones's meeting with Israeli Ambassador Harman.

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John F. Kennedy Library, President's Office Files, box 119, Israel Security, 1961-1963. 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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