The Nixon Administration
Israel’s Nuclear Program

• Alexander Haig to Harold Saunders (10/19/69) [pdf]
• ELR and Packard (7/16/69) [pdf]
• Envelope for President Nixon with writing by Richard Helms (9/8/69) [pdf]
• Harold Saunders to Kissinger (4/4/69) [pdf]
• Henry Owen to the Secretary, “Impact on U.S. Policies of an Israeli Nuclear Weapons Capability” (2/7/69) [pdf]
• Joseph J. Sisco to the Acting Secretary, “Talking Points for Initial Meeting with Israelis on Nuclear and SSM Issue July 29” (7/28/69) [pdf]
• Joseph J. Sisco to the Secretary, “Israel's Nuclear Policy and Implications for the United States” (4/3/69) [pdf]
• Kissinger to Nixon, “Israel’s Nuclear Program” (11/6/69) [pdf]
• Kissinger to the President, “Discussions with the Israelis on Nuclear Matters” (10/7/69) [pdf]
• Kissinger to the President, October 8, 1969, enclosing “Rabin’s Proposed Assurances on Israel Nuclear Policy” (10/8/69) [pdf]
• List of National Security Study Memoranda, n.d., excerpt [pdf]
• Memcon, “Negotiations with Israel - 4F and Advanced Weapons” (11/8/68) [pdf]
• Memcon, “Negotiations with Israel - F4 and Advanced Weapons”(11/12/68) [pdf]
• Memorandum from Atherton and Kratzer to Mr. Sisco, “Response to Congressional Questions on Israel’s Nuclear Capabilities” (10/15/75) [pdf]
• Memorandum of Conversation, “1969 Dimona Visit” (8/13/69) [pdf]
• Memorandum of Conversation, Kissinger and Rabin (2/23/70) [pdf]
• Memorandum of Conversation, “Negotiations with Israel - F4 and Advanced Weapons” (11/4/68) [pdf]
• Minutes, “Meeting of Special NSC Review Group on Israeli Assistance Requests” (1/26/70) [pdf]
• National Security Decision Memorandum 6, “Presidential Decision to Ratify Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty” (2/5/69) [pdf]
• Parker T. Hart to Secretary Dean Rusk, “Issues to be Considered in Connection With Negotiations With Israel for F-4 Phantom Aircraft,” (10/15/68) [pdf]
• Paul C. Warnke to Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin (11/27/68) [pdf]
• Richardson to the President, “Israel’s Nuclear Program” (8/28/69) [pdf]
• Richardson to President, “Israel’s Nuclear Program,” with memorandum of conversation attached (8/1/69) [pdf]
• Robert Munn to Mr. Sisco, “Scheduling of Visit to Dimona Reactor” (6/12/70) [pdf]
• Rodger Davies to Mr. Austin et al., “Review Group Consideration of Response to NSSM-40 June 26, 1969” (6/30/69) [pdf]
• Rodger P. Davies to Under Secretary Richardson, “Call on You by Israeli Ambassador Rabin, Thursday, August 28, at 11 a.m.” (8/27/69) [pdf]
• Saunders to Kissinger (12/8/69) [pdf]
• Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to Secretary of State et al., “Stopping the Introduction of Nuclear Weapons into the Middle East” (3/17/69) [pdf]
• Secretary of State William Rogers to President Nixon, “Suggested Position for You to Take with Israeli Prime Minister Meir during Her Forthcoming Visit” (9/18/69) [pdf]
• Special National Intelligence Estimate - CIA Found that Israel had Nuclear Stockpile in 1974 (8/23/74)
• State Department Briefing Paper for Eshkol-Johnson talks, “Israel: The Nuclear Issue and Sophisticated Weapons” (12/31/67) [pdf]
• State Department cable 127273 to Tel Aviv (7/31/69) [pdf]
• Telcon, Elliott Richardson with Mr. Kissinger (7/16/69) [pdf]
• “The Issues for Decision,” n.d. (1969) [pdf]
• Theodore L. Eliot, State Department Executive Secretary, to Henry Kissinger, “Briefing Book - Visit of Mrs. Golda Meir,” enclosing “Background - Israel's Nuclear Weapon and Missile Programs” (9/19/69) [pdf]
• U.S. Embassy Israel cable 2941 to State Department, “Dimona Visit” (7/31/69) [pdf]