Algie A. Wells
Director of international affairs for the AEC in 1958 who believed U.S. officials could have learned about Israel's Dimona reactor earlier.
Algie A. Wells was the director of international affairs for the AEC in mid-1958. He suggested that Lewis L. Strauss might have ignored his statutory responsibility as AEC chairman for trivial reasons, rather than his Jewishness, when it came to informing John A. McCone about Dimona. Wells believed that if McCone was surprised to learn about the reactor in late 1960, "he shouldn't have been," as any government official who chose to do so could have learned about Israel's nuclear reactor.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7. ↩
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