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Purveyor

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Tue Apr 9, 2013, 06:28 PM Apr 2013

WikiLeaks: We Don’t Intend To Build Nukes, Israel Told US In 1975

WikiLeaks releases 'Kissinger Cables'

Israel’s leaders, in private exchanges with senior US officials in 1975, flatly denied that Israel possessed nuclear weapons, and foreign minister Yigal Allon also claimed Israel had no intention to build such weapons, according to diplomatic cables published this week by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.

This despite the fact that, according to foreign reports, Israel is now believed to have begun full-scale production of nuclear weapons soon after the 1967 war, and to have stockpiled a number of nuclear weapons by the early 1970s.

The cables are part of a trove of more than 1.7 million US diplomatic cables sent between 1973 and 1976. Among the 5,000-plus documents that deal with Israel are messages that shine light on the development of Israel’s nuclear program, as well as on Israel’s relationship with pre-revolutionary Iran and a 1973 plan by then-defense minister Moshe Dayan to extend Israeli citizenship to Palestinian residents of Ramallah and Bethlehem.

In May 1975, senator Howard Baker asked prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and defense minister (today President) Shimon Peres about speculation that Israel had acquired nuclear weapons.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/we-dont-intend-to-build-nukes-israel-told-us-in-1975/
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WikiLeaks: We Don’t Intend To Build Nukes, Israel Told US In 1975 (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2013 OP
check is in the mail frylock Apr 2013 #1
Mordachi Vanunu, enough said. nt Mnemosyne Apr 2013 #2
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