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Office of Science and Technology (OST) was a unit within the Central Intelligence Agency. By the mid-1960s, it was headed by Carl E. Duckett. The OST became the routing point for interesting intelligence on Israel's nuclear program from laboratories like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos.1

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  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 11. ↩︎