#SamsonOption

4 entries

People (2)

David Ben-Gurion Israel's first prime minister and defense minister, who started the Dimona project, described it to Washington as peaceful, and resigned on June 16, 1963, the day an American inspection ultimatum was to reach him.
Menachem Begin Irgun leader and Herut chairman who became prime minister in 1977, shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, ordered the 1981 Osirak raid, and appears in the American record of 1980 Israeli arms offers to Iran.

Organizations (1)

Mossad Israel's foreign intelligence service, whose liaison with the CIA, funded off the books through KK MOUNTAIN, runs through the Dimona, Eichmann, Phalangist, Vanunu and Iran arms episodes in this vault's record.

Places (1)

Dimona Israel's Negev Nuclear Research Center near Beersheba, built from 1958 with French help and discovered by the United States in 1960, visited but never inspected by American teams until July 1969.