How Israel Helped a Then-Rogue State Go Nuclear

[Purveyor]

here have been rumors since the late 1970s of Israeli cooperation in South Africa's effort to become a nuclear power. A double flash over the Indian Ocean detected by a U.S. satellite in 1979, for example, was suspected (but never confirmed) to be a joint, low-yield Israeli-South African nuclear test.

South African documents that appeared to show Israel offering to sell nuclear weapons were refuted by Israeli President Shimon Peres, in 2010, as "selective interpretation." Here we show what really occurred — and how.

According to new CIA evidence, Israel proved "absolutely vital" to South Africa's apartheid regime 30 years ago in building six Hiroshima-size bombs. New details about this collaboration arose in a series of interviews I conducted with Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of CIA covert operations in Europe and, at the time of the events described here, a clandestine officer serving in Pretoria, South Africa. The interviews were conducted in Washington, D.C., in 2010.

Drumheller is an unusually credible and outspoken man. In his book, On the Brink: An Insider's Account of How the White House Compromised American Intelligence and in interviews with the CBS News program "60 Minutes," he was the most senior of former CIA officials to tell the truth about faulty intelligence in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

He showed how the Bush-Cheney White House had promoted intelligence it liked on Iraq — and specifically on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction — while ignoring intelligence it didn't like.

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[John2]

1. Everybody acts like

our country is this model of moral purity, but there is no evidence of this in our history. we have conducted foreign policy based on racism. We continue to fight it within our own country. When we fought Germany in World War II, our Army was still segregated by race. Our Government did not hesitate to drop nuclear bombs on the Japanese. And we did not acquire that technology just because we were superior like many racists like to think.

There were people on the Left within our own country that forced the U.S. Government to place sanctions on Apartheid South Africa. I do not think countries like the United States,Britain, Germany, China, Japan or Russia should be dictating to other countries about nuclear weapons without looking at themselves. Unless there is an agreement to reduce all nuclear weapons and the use of them, the genie is out of the box. The United States does not abide by human rights rules when the complaints are made against it. Instead, the Congress claims the rights of national sovereignty but stick their noses into every other countries' business. When our countrymen and women take care of civil rights here than they can talk about other countries. You can start with the vote rigging shenanigans to steal democracy.

[Purveyor]

2. Indeed and thank you for posting... +1 eom