LETTER TO ADMIRAL STANSFIELD TURNER FROM PAUL FINDLEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001100040022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 22, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

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Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
COMMirrEEs
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
AGRICULTURE
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Dear Admiral Turner:
Enclosed is a copy of an article from the January 31,
1978 edition of the Jerusalem Post. Since the Agency has
released the study on t`ie Isra.e i nuclear prograin would
you please forward a copy of the full five page document
to my office. If security measures continue to be necessary,
I shall gladly follow our strict International Relations,
Committee procedures and keep the copy in the Committee
safe in 2172 Rayburn Building.
Thank you for your prompt consideration of this request.
Paul Findley
Ranking Minority Member
Subcommittee on Europe
and the Middle East
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The Jerusalem Post January 31, 1978
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means; the ambiguous nature of never have been made.
Israeli efforts in the field of uranium" _accuracy of thaid not deny the
enrichment; and Israel's large in- the statement. Shortly
after the incident, Duckett retired
vestment in a costly missile system from the CIA, citing health reasons.
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The. u .S. Central 'We?do not expect the Israelis to
Intelligence` Agency 'has publicly provide confirmation of widespread
released a 1974 secret study showing' suspleions of their capability, either
-that Israel' has a nuclear. weapons -by nuclear testing 61' by threat of
prograrshrrael7-based In partors rise, short' of a grave threat to the'.
uraniuia3 obtained through 'nation's existence; ?, ie report said.
-clandestine mearia.'' ' _C,: ?? Avlexea? Pazner,E
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The CIA said Saturday that the . Israeli
no embassy he i, ,Icl "There
-release "_.of the. five-page. secret is proof what'oerever. I can only
only
. analysis . had .'been. a "mistake,; repeat to you that- Israel Ys, not a
Spokesrriax.+i Herbert Hettt said; .".WE; nuclear power and that Israel will
don't 7tno31~'}taw It happened. We're not be the first country in the Middle
~in the midst of tryink'to"figure thaf East to Introdihce nuclear arnra info
part 'ou2 the
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of :the'-lengthy study should have, Powell - aid Saturday that the U.S.
been released, and the rest should accepts this Israeli statement as
have remained classified. He would "authoritative" and would make no
make no further comrnent. further r o.mment.
One story making the rounds wam that Thun? day'. "rnistake" by the CJJi.
a bureaucratic slip-up had was not. the first time that CIA oxi'.
resulted in the release of the entire ficials have forgotten that CIA es-
package instead of''just'-the' two timates of Israel's nuclear weapons
paragraphs.'
The "document, written -shoktly capability are supposed to be secret.'
after the May 1974 Indian A-bomb Early in 1976, the CIAet t third-D explosion, was stamped "secret, no meeting official, Carle executives
etold foreign disclosure."' meetiof aerospace We believe that Israel alrea
I d - that Israel had. "10 to 20 atom
y, bombs. When the remark was later
has produced nuclear weapons," It' leaked to the press, then-CIA direc-
said. "Our judgment Is based on for "George Bush apologized for It,
Israeli acquisition of large quantities ? asserting that the statement should
of uranium, partly by clandestine
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