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Trips: Conservation trip, September 1963: 24-29: Hanford Project of the Atomic Energy Commission
Folder Description:
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's visit to the Hanford Electric Generating Plant in Hanford, Washington during his trip to the western United States to discuss issues such as conservation and natural resource development. Materials in this folder include a map of the Hanford site, a fact sheet on the Hanford Project of the Atomic Energy Commission, and photographs of the Hanford Atomic Reservation in Benton County, Washington.
Collection:
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKPOF/109/JFKPOF-109-005
RIP Rafi Eitan, Mastermind of Mossad’s Uranium Heist
On September 10, 1968 Raphael Eitan and three other Israeli nationals arrived in Apollo, Pennsylvania, a small city north of Pittsburgh that was home to a company called the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation. NUMEC packaged and stored enriched uranium, which it supplied to nuclear power plants in northeastern United States.
Eitan, who died Saturday at age 92, was already a legendary intelligence operative by the time he came to America in 1968. In 1960, he led the operation to capture Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi functionary who presided over the liquidation of the European Jews. Eichmann’s trial and subsequent execution was a milestone in world understanding of the Holocaust.
As his obituaries noted, Eitan would go on to a storied career. Eitan was responsible for the handling of Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy whose arrest in 1985 caused a serious rift between the governments in Tel Aviv and Washington.
The New York Times obituary mentioned of one of Eitan’s most audacious and consequential operations:
“He was also suspected of being involved in the late-1960s disappearance of at least 100 pounds of highly enriched uranium from a nuclear fuel plant in the Pittsburgh area; many believed that the uranium was diverted to Israel to help its atomic bomb program.”
Eitan’s unacknowledged role in helping Israel become a nuclear-armed state is documented in a September 11, 1968, FBI report, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. (You can read the document here.) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/22145-10-memorandum-sac-wfo-director-fbi
https://www.deepstateblog.org/2019/03/28/rip-rafi-eitan-mastermind-of-mossads-u-s-uranium-heist/