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Posted on February 12, 2017September 24, 2018 By Eileen Fleming 1 Comment on Reply to Mordechai Vanunu Question for Netanyahu and Trump
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This week in D.C. Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump will meet

In the interest of The World can Mordechai Vanunu get a response from them:

To his post at Facebook?

By Eileen Fleming

On February 4th Israel’s nuclear whistle blower wrote at his Facebook Wall “Vanunu Mordechai”

Here is what many people are saying:—–This Jewish state ,Israel, what do they want from you?.you are not a Jew any more, they rejected your message against Nuclear Weapons,they make you a traitor, they punished you in 18 years of Isolation, with cruel barbaric treatments, they try to break you for 30 years without success ,What do they want?

 

Unless Netanyahu or Trump respond otherwise, this American contends what THEY want is to keep hid what this reporter addressed in HEROES, MUSES and The Saga of Mordechai Vanunu, from which I excerpt:

In April 2015, The National Security Archive of George Washington University published documents corroborating much of what Mordechai Vanunu has been saying for three decades.

However, the Mainstream Media still has not reported on these documents which detail the discovery of Israel’s nuclear deceptions, debates over Israel’s lack of candor and efforts to pressure the Israelis to answer key questions about the Dimona during the Eisenhower years.

This ‘discovery,’ which came as the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower was drawing to a close, caused apprehension in Washington by raising concern about regional stability and nuclear proliferation, but it also produced annoyance because Israeli officials at all levels repeatedly provided less than credible answers to U.S. questions about Dimona.

Thus, in September 1960, when embassy officials asked about a new construction site when they were on a helicopter ride nearby, an adroit Israeli official, Addy Cohen, improvised a story to keep the secret: it was the site of a textile factory, he said; a story that was not wholly false because there was a textile plant near Dimona.

In 2005, Vanunu told me, “Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’”

 

Excerpted from Document 8: Plutonium Production for Weapons Is At least One Major Purpose:

On the basis of intelligence collected during the summer and fall of 1960 (of which much remains classified)…Israel is engaged in construction of a nuclear reactor complex in the Negev near Beersheba.

Acknowledging that there could be various ways to interpret the function of the Dimona complex, the authors believed that “on the basis of all available evidence” that “plutonium production for weapons is at least one major purpose of this effort” and “that Israel will produce some weapons grade plutonium in 1963-64 and possibly as early as 1962.”

Excerpted from Document 10: Considerable Weapons Potential

On 9 December, Secretary of State Herter summoned Israeli ambassador Avraham Harman to the State Department and showed him photos of the Dimona reactor, asking for an explanation that would remove ‘bases for concern.’

Harman said he knew nothing of the project but would inform his government. Later that afternoon, Herter called Claude Lebel, the chargé d’affaires at the French embassy, and asked about French involvement in the project.

Herter prefaced his question by referring to a report he had received from his embassy in Tel Aviv that Prime Minister Ben-Gurion was about to announce that a new experimental reactor had been built in the Negev with French aid.

Herter noted that, according to information the United States had ascertained, Israel had been involved since 1958 in constructing a reactor “which is at least ten times as large as claimed” and that the design appeared to be not for power but for plutonium production, hence, it would provide Israel “considerable weapons potential.”

In 2005, Vanunu told me:

The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out.

Everything inside was written in French, when I was there…the Dimona descended seven floors underground.
In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956.

Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.

Excerpted from Document 18: Israel had By No Means Come Clean with Us

Under Secretary of State Merchant briefed Assistant Secretary Lewis Jones about an Operations Coordinating Board [OCB] discussion of the Israel nuclear problem where Allen Dulles had grumbled that Israel had “by no means come clean with us.”

The participants were also annoyed that the Development Loan Fund (DLF) had authorized a loan to Israel despite the OCB’s agreement that such action should be delayed.

Eisenhower’s national security assistant, Gordon Gray, emphasized that the president wanted further efforts to secure Israel’s agreement to IAEA inspections.

Such efforts, however, were not to reach the press and any initiative should be “conducted quietly through diplomatic channels.”

Excerpted from Document 20: The Possibility of Embarrassing the Government

Letter from Richard Kerry, U.S. Embassy Oslo, to William Burdette, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, 30 December 1960:

In response to the State Department request, embassy officers in Oslo obtained more information on the Israel-Norway heavy water deal and the terms of the sale agreement, which included a ‘peaceful uses’ stipulation.

On 30 December, political officer Richard Kerry obtained a copy of the agreement, which he believed, could be embarrassing to the Norwegian government in light of its efforts to play the role of ‘honest broker’ in international conflicts, including the Middle East.

The agreement included an Israeli commitment that the use of the heavy water was for peaceful purposes, including an inspection clause.

According to Kerry’s letter, a major problem was that the heavy water sale had been initially treated as a commercial sale by the Norwegian firm NORATOM without appropriate vetting by political experts at the Foreign Ministry (like an earlier controversial sale of weapons to the Batista dictatorship in Cuba).

Kerry asked the State Department to keep the transaction a secret and so it stayed until the late 1970s when the Stockholm Institute of Peace Research disclosed it.

Kerry did not mention the British role in the affair…

Excerpted from Document 21: Clearly Apparent Lack of Candor

State Department telegram 502 to U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, 31 December 1960

This telegram, originally published in the FRUS in an excised version, showed how unhappy the State Department was with Ben-Gurion’s explanation of the Dimona reactor: his answers “appear evasive.”

The State Department saw the “clearly apparent lack of candor [as] difficult to reconcile with [the] confidence which had traditionally characterized U.S.-Israel relations.”

To restore confidence, Israel needed to answer questions about its plans to dispose of plutonium, the application of safeguards to plutonium produced, visits by IAEA or other scientists to the reactor site, and whether there were plans to build a third reactor. Moreover, “can Israel state unequivocally that it has no plans for producing nuclear weapons?”

Excerpted from Document 23: Damaging Air of Secrecy or Suspicions

State Department telegram 2821 to U.S. Embassy Paris, 6 January 1961

Believing that neither France nor Israel had been forthright and that the lack of candor had damaging implications for Middle East stability, Herter asked U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton to meet with Couve de Murville and discuss his earlier statement about the French-Israeli nuclear project.

If the Dimona project is a “large scale production reactor,” the French need to be “unequivocally clear that [their] assistance is directed solely to peaceful uses.”

Excerpted from Documents 27A-B: The Post-Mortem

This post-mortem study on SNIE 100-8-60 is one of the most intriguing documents in this collection.

Its aim was to explain why the US intelligence community had failed to detect in real time the Israeli nuclear project, and indeed how late it was in making that determination.

The chronology, on pages 8 through 17, provides an account of what was known, and when, about the Israeli nuclear program, concluding that Washington might have seen through Israeli “secrecy or deception” and better understood Israeli intentions at least a year earlier if the “atomic energy intelligence community had properly interpreted” the available information.

In essence, the overall conclusion was that the root cause of the delay was not so much the absence of information as that some important reports and items of information had been lost in the shuffle and the dots not properly connected…

Connecting Dots:

In 1986, Nuclear Physicist Frank Barnaby was hired by London’s Sunday Times to vet Vanunu’s story and he testified at Vanunu’s closed-door trial:

I found Vanunu very straightforward about his motives for violating Israel’s secrecy laws he explained to me that he believed that both the Israeli and the world public had the right to know about the information he passed on. He seemed to me to be acting ideologically.

Israel’s political leaders have, he said, consistently lied about Israel’s nuclear-weapons programme and he found this unacceptable in a democracy.

The knowledge that Vanunu had about Israel’s nuclear weapons, about the operations at Dimona, and about security at Dimona could not be of any use to anyone today. He left Dimona in October 1985.

Once upon a time not so very long ago the winners wrote history;

But the digital age changed that!

Please view UNCENSORED VANUNU at youTube produced by THIS AMERICAN

My first two questions to Vanunu regarding WHY he converted to Christianity and what was his message to America:

“30 Minutes with Vanunu”

Eileen Fleming, is THIS AMERICAN

Health Reporter and Senior NON-Arab Correspondent

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