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April 9, 1962

William C. Hamilton to Robert C. Strong, 'Reply to U.K. Paper on Safeguards'

State Department reply to British officials regarding controls over Israel's nuclear program.

February 14, 1962

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Israel's Atomic Energy Program'

Discussion with the British about supervision of Israel's atomic energy program.

February 12, 1962

Nicolas G. Thacher to James P. Grant, 'Your Appointment with Dennis Greenhill and Dennis Speares of the British Embassy'

British Embassy officials raise British concerns about the Israeli nuclear facility at Dimona.

January 18, 1962

Memorandum by Robert Amory, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, to Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs [McGeorge Bundy]

Heavily excised report to McGeorge Bundy from the CIA on the Israeli nuclear program and Dimona.

November 14, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Broadened Access to Israel’s Nuclear Reactor'

Israel would prefer a visit by Scandinavian or Swiss scientists to Dimona.

November 14, 1961

Robert C. Strong to Phillips Talbot, 'Your Appointment with Israel Ambassador Harman'

Talbot is to raise the issue of visits by "neutral" scientists to the Dimona reactor.

November 15, 1961

Letter, Howard Furnas, Office of Special Assistant to Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space, to Dwight Ink, Atomic Energy Commission

Furnas writes about Department of State concerns that Israel may pursue a nuclear weapons program once the Dimona reactor is in operation.

October 5, 1961

National Intelligence Estimate, NIE 35-61, 'The Outlook for Israel'

National Intelligence Estimate on Israel concluded that "Israel may have decided to undertake a nuclear weapons program. At a minimum, we believe it has decided to develop its nuclear facilities in such a way as to put it into a position to develop nuclear weapons promptly should it decide to do."

June 17, 1961

State Department Circular Telegram 2047 to US Embassy Jordan [et al.]

Circular telegram for Middle East embassies regarding US visit to Dimona reactor.

June 16, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'The Dimona Reactor'

The State Department made plans to brief Arab governments on the US visit to Dimona, but Deputy Assistant Secretary Armin Meyer asked Ambassador Harman if his government would be willing to work with US representatives at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting to make an announcement of the visit to Dimona and also to undertake quiet discussions at the meeting about a possible neutral visit to Dimona. Harman, however, objected to an IAEA role in the Dimona matter until the rest of the world had accepted the idea of inspections and he wanted Washington to coordinate any visit by neutral scientists.

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