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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Researcher
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- Physicist
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summary: "Meir Deshalit, also known as Meme Deshalit, was an Israeli intelligence official and a close colleague of James Jesus Angleton."
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relations:
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- type: relative_of
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with: "[[Amos Deshalit]]"
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role: "brother"
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fn: 1
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updated: 2026-10-28
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Meir Deshalit, also known as Meme Deshalit, was an Israeli intelligence official and a close colleague of [[James Jesus Angleton]]. He had been posted to [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1948. Deshalit was the older brother of [[Amos Deshalit]], the physicist who contributed significantly to [[Israel]]'s nuclear arsenal before his death in 1969. Angleton shared Meir Deshalit's view of the Soviet and Arab threat to [[Israel]], making him a logical choice to handle liaison between the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] and the Israeli government.[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 11. |