Recently declassified documents analyzed
by the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern Policy reveal a surprising fact. The Israeli government used American Jews and its own
intelligence agents to infiltrate American uranium stockpiles in the
1950s and 1960s and steal 269 kilograms of weapons-grade material. That
led to the creation of the Zionist state’s first nuclear bomb.
According to hundreds of documents from
the FBI, CIA and other agencies recently declassified under the Freedom
of Information Act, the United States contracted oversight of its
nuclear materials stockpile to Zalman Shapiro, president of Numec Inc.,
an Apollo, Pa.-based company that U.S. intelligence suspected had ties
to the newly formed Zionist government in Palestine. Over the next 11
years, 269 kilograms of enriched uranium were stolen from the plant in
an operation guided by four known Mossad Israeli intelligence agents:
Rafael Eitan, Avraham Ben-Dor, Ephraim Biegun and Avraham Hermoni.
