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June 22, 1962	Robert C. Strong to Phillips Talbot, 'Another Visit to Israel’s Dimona Reactor' Unable to arrange visits from a "neutral" country, the State Department proposes another US visit to Dimona.
February 12, 1962	Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Israel’s Atomic Energy Program' British response to State Department reply regarding controls over Israel nuclear program.
April 9, 1962	William C. Hamilton to Robert C. Strong, 'Reply to U.K. Paper on Safeguards' State Department reply to British officials regarding controls over Israel's nuclear program.
February 14, 1962	Department of State Memorandum of Conversation, 'Israel's Atomic Energy Program' Discussion with the British about supervision of Israel's atomic energy program.
February 12, 1962	Nicolas G. Thacher to James P. Grant, 'Your Appointment with Dennis Greenhill and Dennis Speares of the British Embassy' British Embassy officials raise British concerns about the Israeli nuclear facility at Dimona.
January 18, 1962	Memorandum by Robert Amory, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, to Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs [McGeorge Bundy] Heavily excised report to McGeorge Bundy from the CIA on the Israeli nuclear program and 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.
November 14, 1961	Robert C. Strong to Phillips Talbot, 'Your Appointment with Israel Ambassador Harman' Talbot is to raise the issue of visits by "neutral" scientists to the Dimona reactor.
November 15, 1961	Letter, Howard Furnas, Office of Special Assistant to Secretary of State for Atomic Energy and Outer Space, to Dwight Ink, Atomic Energy Commission Furnas writes about Department of State concerns that Israel may pursue a nuclear weapons program once the Dimona reactor is in operation.
October 5, 1961	National Intelligence Estimate, NIE 35-61, 'The Outlook for Israel' National Intelligence Estimate on Israel concluded that "Israel may have decided to undertake a nuclear weapons program. At a minimum, we believe it has decided to develop its nuclear facilities in such a way as to put it into a position to develop nuclear weapons promptly should it decide to do."