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June 22, 1962

Robert C. Strong to Phillips Talbot, 'Another Visit to Israel’s Dimona Reactor'

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Unable to arrange visits from a "neutral" country, the State Department proposes another US visit to Dimona.

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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'

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

December 27, 1962

Rodger P. Davies to Phillips Talbot, 'Second Inspection of Israel's Dimona Reactor'

Summary of second US inspection of Dimona. Although inspectors "were taken to Dimona without advance notification, [and] they had spent only a short time there," they felt that "the visit was satisfacotry in that the AEC technicians could confirm that the reactor is not a power reactor but rather a large research reactor.

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RG 59, DF, 611.84A45/6-2262. Originally published in Avner Cohen and William Burr, eds., National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #547 (April 21, 2016).

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