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

Myron B. Kratzer was the director of international affairs for the Atomic Energy Commission in December 1960. He recalled being telephoned a few hours before John 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

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