Israeli quarters today confirmed reports that engineers of the United States Atomic Energy Commission had inspected Israel’s atomic reactor at Dimona. But the Israelis added that the Government has not promised to permit regular inspections of that facility and will, in the future, consider any such request on its merits. (The reports from Washington in the American press stated that the American AEC engineers had found that Israel is using the reactor for peaceful purposes only.)
The American scientists who visited Dimona had been accompanied by Robert Komer a White House aide, it was revealed today. Mr. Komer was here a week before W. Averell Harriman, President Johnson’s ambassador-at-large, had come here to discuss the German question, among other issues. The White House aide returned to the United States with Mr. Harriman.
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