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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Nuclear Scientists & Programs	Person Nuclear Israel	Jody Powell was President Jimmy Carter's press secretary.	1943-09-30	2009-09-14	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, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and General Accounting Office had "failed to reveal" a diversion of uranium to Israel from Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation.¹

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