William E. Colby
Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976 who believed Israel possessed nuclear weapons and might use them in an extreme situation.
William E. Colby served as the Director of the CIA from 1973 to 1976. He shared the assumption that Israel had a few nuclear weapons and that if there was a collapse during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, there was a possibility that Israel would use them. Colby believed that nuclear weapons would be used "only in an extreme situation."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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