Ike told me he was irate when he found out that CIA had not warned him in time of the Israeli nuclear program carried out with the help of the French, essentially in Dimona, after an agreement signed with minister Bourges-Maunoury. Allen Dulles blamed the snafu on Angleton who was very chummy with the Israelis, notably David Kimche. French-Israeli cooperation on a military nuclear program continued until 1967, when De Gaulle, who had also been misinformed, put an end to it after the 1967 war.
French-Israeli nuclear cooperation was based on the same delusional theory, as invoked in the Suez war, that Algeria's war of independence would not have occurred without Nasser and Egypt. I wonder what Guy Mollet and the other French Socialists would have said if they had found out that Ike had been supplying arms to the Algerians through Egypt, agreeing on the type and quantities of weapons Egypt would deliver, which were paid with US money, unknown to John Foster Dulles. I had known about it from Ike but was not allowed to talk about it until Prof Irwin M Wall of UCAL Berkeley found about it through a FOIA request. See his book, "France, the United States and the Algerian War," UCAL Press 2003. More details in my forthcoming "Enter The Third Murderer".
Great read. And the Angleton “memorial “ in Israel brings it home.
Ike told me he was irate when he found out that CIA had not warned him in time of the Israeli nuclear program carried out with the help of the French, essentially in Dimona, after an agreement signed with minister Bourges-Maunoury. Allen Dulles blamed the snafu on Angleton who was very chummy with the Israelis, notably David Kimche. French-Israeli cooperation on a military nuclear program continued until 1967, when De Gaulle, who had also been misinformed, put an end to it after the 1967 war.
French-Israeli nuclear cooperation was based on the same delusional theory, as invoked in the Suez war, that Algeria's war of independence would not have occurred without Nasser and Egypt. I wonder what Guy Mollet and the other French Socialists would have said if they had found out that Ike had been supplying arms to the Algerians through Egypt, agreeing on the type and quantities of weapons Egypt would deliver, which were paid with US money, unknown to John Foster Dulles. I had known about it from Ike but was not allowed to talk about it until Prof Irwin M Wall of UCAL Berkeley found about it through a FOIA request. See his book, "France, the United States and the Algerian War," UCAL Press 2003. More details in my forthcoming "Enter The Third Murderer".