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The US official pointed and asked the party’s Israeli escort, Addy Cohen from the country’s Finance Ministry, what it might be.
A “textile factory,” Cohen told the Americans, one of whom was US ambassador to Israel Ogden Reid.
What the passenger had spotted was the building of the Dimona nuclear facility, now known as the birthplace of the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal. It would be several months before Ogden demanded a meeting with Cohen after US intelligence had deciphered the true nature of the construction site.
“Cohen at first treated the matter with levity, (but the) impression came through that he believed (the) reactor could be used eventually for weapons purposes,” said a secret US diplomatic telegram, part of a trove of declassified documents collected by the National Security Archive that also include details of the helicopter ride.
Five years later, US nuclear officials realized a Pennsylvania uranium plant was missing hundreds of pounds of weapons-grade enriched uranium, which some US intelligence officials argued and a recent documentary suggested was diverted for use in the Israeli program... READ MORE https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/07/politics/israels-nuclear-weapons-program
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