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India Denies Supplying Egypt with Radioactive Waste Materials

June 19, 1963
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The Embassy of India today denied a report published by “Parade” magazine that India was shipping radioactive waste materials to Egypt for possible use in rocket warheads to contaminate Israeli soil.

Public relations attache Samish D. Kalelkar of the Embassy of India denied that such material was being shipped to Egypt from India new reactor. He said the purposes of India were peaceful in nuclear research and stated “I have been authorized by my Government to state that the report is completely false and baseless.”

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