---
category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
tags:
  - Person
  - Nuclear
  - Israel
summary: "Jody Powell was President Jimmy Carter's press secretary."
born: 1943-09-30
died: 2009-09-14
location: "Cordele, Georgia"
---

Jody Powell was President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s press secretary. In October 1977, he publicly announced that "four years of continuing investigation" by the [[Atomic Energy Commission|AEC]], [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], and General Accounting Office had "failed to reveal" a diversion of uranium to [[Israel]] from [[Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation|NUMEC]].[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 18.