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May 5, 1961	Memorandum by Secretary of State Rusk to President Kennedy, 'Visit to Israeli Reactor' The Israeli Embassy has confirmed the visit by two American observers to the Dimona nuclear facility for May 18.
May 1, 1961	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Philips Talbot to Secretary of State, 'Ben--Gurion Visit and Israel’s Reactor' Ambassador Harman requests that the US visit to Dimona be delayed until after Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and President Kennedy meet in New York on May 30th.
May 1, 1961	Deputy Assistant Secretary Meyer Memorandum of Conversation, 'Visit to Israeli Reactor' Armin H. Meyer discusses the US visit to Dimona with Mordechai Gazit.
April 28, 1961	State Department Telegram 798 to US Embassy Tel Aviv Israelis have been informed of the details of US visit to Dimona.
April 17, 1961	Assistant Secretary Jones, Memorandum of Conversation, 'U.S. Visit to Dimona' Jones proposes to Israeli Minister Plenipotentiary Mordechai Gazit that the US visit to Dimona be kept "quiet" rather than "secret."
April 11, 1961	Memorandum by Assistant Secretary Jones to Secretary of State Rusk, 'Your Appointment with Israeli Ambassador Harman' Jones informs Rusk that Israel is ready to allow a US visit to Dimona, but it must be kept secret. Jones also informed Rusk that the Atomic Energy Commission had selected two of its scientists to make the visit: Ulysses Staebler, assistant director of reactor development and chief of the Civilian Power Reactors Branch, and Jesse Croach Jr., a heavy water reactor expert with Dupont, the AEC’s principal contractor for heavy water reactor work.
April 10, 1961	Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'U.S. Visit to Dimona Reactor Site' Ambassador Harman informs Jones and Philip Farley, the special assistant to the secretary of state for atomic energy and outer space matters, that Israel is formally inviting a US scientist to visit the Dimona complex during the week of 15 May, but that the visit should be secret.
March 30, 1961	Memorandum from Secretary Rusk to President Kennedy, 'Dimona Reactor in Israel' Rusk updates the President on US requests to Israel to visit the Dimona reactor, and provides a related chronology.
March 28, 1961	Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Dimona Reactor' Assistant Secretary Lewis Jones asks again about arranging a US visit to the Dimona nuclear facility.
March 13, 1961	Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Dimona Reactor' Ambassador Harman says there is no news about arranging a US visit to Dimona.