George Ball
George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration.
George Ball served as the Under Secretary of State during the Kennedy administration. His office was responsible for rewriting William R. Crawford's draft letter from President Kennedy to David Ben-Gurion regarding Israel's nuclear program at Dimona. Ball's office held onto the letter for days, eventually provoking a complaint from the White House, and when his rewritten version emerged, it had the same message but in "JFK prose."1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 8. ↩
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