John L. Hadden
Hadden sent Colonel Carmelo V.
John L. Hadden served as the CIA station chief in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the mid-1960s. He viewed Ambassador Walworth Barbour as a professional and encouraged his staff to find out what they could about Dimona. Hadden worked closely with Robert T. Webber, the embassy's scientific attaché, in clear violation of a State Department decree forbidding scientific attachés from engaging in intelligence work.1
Hadden sent Colonel Carmelo V. Alba to Beersheba to conduct a census of French names on mailboxes in the city's apartment complexes, as part of an ongoing effort to determine who was working at Dimona. Hadden also inadvertently got into trouble with the Israeli foreign office when his American license plates were put on a jeep used by Alba for a weekend trip to the Negev, leading to a stiff protest from the Israelis who suspected the CIA station chief was sneaking around.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 12. ↩
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