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Atlantic Richfield Company

Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was an American oil company that acquired a controlling interest in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in 1967 after NUMEC's founder Zalman Shapiro was forced out amid an FBI investigation into highly-enriched uranium diversion to Israel.

1966–2000 · Los Angeles, California

Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was an American oil company. In 1967, Zalman Mordecai Shapiro and his partners were forced to merge their interest in the NUMEC into ARCO due to the continuing controversy over alleged uranium diversion. Shapiro, with his special Q clearance still intact, continued to run the plant.1

  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 18. ↩

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