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category: "Nuclear Scientists & Programs"
tags:
- Person
- Nuclear
- Israel
summary: "David Lowenthal was one of the initial stockholders in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC)."
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David Lowenthal was one of the initial stockholders in the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC). He had helped bring illegal immigrants into [[Israel]] before 1948. His involvement, along with [[Zalman Mordecai Shapiro]]'s ties to [[Israel]], fueled suspicions within the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] that NUMEC was part of a long-range Israeli intelligence scheme to divert uranium.[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 18.