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tags:
  - Organization
  - Government
  - USA
category: "U.S. Government"
summary: "The Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a CIA unit headed from the mid-1960s by Carl E. Duckett that served as the routing point for intelligence on Israel's nuclear program from national laboratories including Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos."
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Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a unit within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. By the mid-1960s, it was headed by [[Carl E. Duckett]]. The OST became the routing point for interesting intelligence on [[Israel]]'s nuclear program from laboratories like [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] and [[Los Alamos]].[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 11.