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September 14, 1962

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Proposed Visit of U.S. Scientists to the Dimona Reactor'

Delay in response to US request for a second visit to Dimona.

June 22, 1962

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'A Second Visit by U.S. Scientists to Israel’s Dimona Reactor'

Ambassador Harman responds favorably to the suggestion of another US visit to Dimona.

November 14, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Broadened Access to Israel’s Nuclear Reactor'

Israel would prefer a visit by Scandinavian or Swiss scientists to Dimona.

June 16, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'The Dimona Reactor'

The State Department made plans to brief Arab governments on the US visit to Dimona, but Deputy Assistant Secretary Armin Meyer asked Ambassador Harman if his government would be willing to work with US representatives at the IAEA Board of Governors meeting to make an announcement of the visit to Dimona and also to undertake quiet discussions at the meeting about a possible neutral visit to Dimona. Harman, however, objected to an IAEA role in the Dimona matter until the rest of the world had accepted the idea of inspections and he wanted Washington to coordinate any visit by neutral scientists.

May 30, 1961

Memorandum of Conversation, 'President Kennedy, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, Ambassador Avraham Harman of Israel, Myer Feldman of the White House Staff, and Philips Talbot, Assistant Secretary, Near East and South Asian Affairs'

US memorandum of conversation of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and President Kennedy's discussion in New York.

April 10, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'U.S. Visit to Dimona Reactor Site'

Ambassador Harman informs Jones and Philip Farley, the special assistant to the secretary of state for atomic energy and outer space matters, that Israel is formally inviting a US scientist to visit the Dimona complex during the week of 15 May, but that the visit should be secret.

March 28, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Dimona Reactor'

Assistant Secretary Lewis Jones asks again about arranging a US visit to the Dimona nuclear facility.

March 13, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Dimona Reactor'

Ambassador Harman says there is no news about arranging a US visit to Dimona.

February 16, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Israel’s Security and Other Problems'

US National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy meets with Ambassador Harman to discuss the Israeli nuclear facility at Dimona.

February 3, 1961

Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Israeli Reactor'

Assistant Secretary of State G. Lewis Jones meets with Israeli Ambassador Harman, to discuss the Dimona reactor Harman explained that the Israeli government was preoccupied with an ongoing domestic political crisis.