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category: Authors & Journalists
summary: House Subcommittee on Energy specialist who spent nearly fifteen years promoting
  intelligence claims about Israeli nuclear diversion via NUMEC.
tags:
- Person
- Journalist
---

Henry R. Myers was a specialist on energy issues for the House Subcommittee on Energy. He, along with [Peter D. Stockton](/people/peter-d-stockton/), spent nearly fifteen years relaying the suspicions of [Carl E. Duckett](/people/carl-e-duckett/) and [John L. Hadden](/people/john-l-hadden/) to journalists as the views of knowledgeable intelligence sources, leading many reporters to publish these beliefs as "facts." Myers believed that [NUMEC](/organizations/nuclear-materials-and-equipment-corporation/) had been set up solely for the diversion of uranium, and alleged reports of a secure telephone or teletype between NUMEC and the Israeli embassy. He also claimed that [Richard M. Helms](/people/richard-m-helms/) believed [Zalman Mordecai Shapiro](/people/zalman-mordecai-shapiro/) was the head of a group collecting information for [Israel](/places/israel/).[^1]

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