---
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
  - Person
  - Nuclear
  - Israel
summary: "Director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission during the period Israel's nuclear program was exposed in 1960."
born: 1925
location: "New York City, New York, USA"
---

Myron B. Kratzer was the director of international affairs for the [[Atomic Energy Commission|AEC]] in December 1960. He recalled being telephoned a few hours before [[John McCone|John A. McCone]]'s farewell appearance on *Meet the Press* by a [[State Department]] colleague, who urged him to ask McCone to downplay the Israeli nuclear issue. McCone, however, refused, stating he would not "tell anything less than the truth."[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 6.