SPECULATE ON CIA KNOWLEDGE OF ISRAEL ATOMIC POTENTIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400450001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 26, 1960
• Content Type: TRANS

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SPECULATE ON CIA KNOWLEDGE OF IS
Guest, Willy Ley, science writer.
Dr. Robert Bier, Brown University
Dr. Ralph Lapp, scientist,
a.uAaad WBNY Dec 26 1960
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Barry Gray and his guests had been talking abont~.the then
cu?rreaat news of atomic bomb potential inside Israel,
GRAY a "I em 'terribly disturbed, frankly, becaus?the stories
that have appeared so far seem extremely secretive.' don't like
the Idea of their not giving our government full inforaiation,
.{wadi at.ely upon car asking; because I don't believe they would
exist were it ttot for our official administration policy and the
qaeat gift of both mind and money by'-- in overwhelming amounts --
the people of the United States."
LAPP: *There is* of course, an agency known as the Central
f,tellagtace Agency,which is supported to the uaknown;;smount. of
h,undzed million dollars a year. They shouldn't have to be told,.
k would imsglre."
GRAY: "This is true0 Ibis is true, but then We***
"
LAPP: "That's an assumption on my part."
GRAY: ".o?we were also surprised at Pearl Harbor and all
of the events leading down to Fidel Castro; so why should we be
toren 4b?ack at this? Have we had the news yet on anything?"
BIER: "We've often had the news and don't read it."
GRAY: "this could be so."
BIER: "As for example, of Sputnik."