Orwin C. Talbott
Lieutenant General told point-blank by Israeli Chief of Staff David Elazar about Israel's nuclear threat during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Orwin C. Talbott was a Lieutenant General and deputy commander of the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). In early 1974, Talbott visited Israel to discuss lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War. During a meeting with David Elazar, then Israeli Chief of Staff, Elazar suddenly began talking "out of the blue" about Israel's threat to use nuclear weapons in the desperate moments of the 1973 war. Talbott understood the significance of this information and quickly filed a top-secret one-page memorandum for General Creighton W. Abrams, the Army chief of staff, believing Elazar was trying to send a message to Washington, D.C..1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 17. ↩
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