7 - 7'41 E0 13526 1U SECRET February 14 19w - 1 MEMORANDUM r011 HE PR The Israeli bounding rocket red in July 1961 in the only firing to dete Israel he not allowed us to lat-pact this program mm Israel behind the UAR but with a major effort plus foreign help Israel could have a few 200-500 mile mie- eilee in 3-4 years NIB 50-63 In fact Israel has recently been quite ecclve in trying to recruit foreign scientists including US which suggests it is contemplating such an effort The Dimes-a reactor was he inspected by us in November banking on Golda Melt-'5 assurance to you we are planning a better look in the next month or so NIE 30-63 estimatee Israel unless deterred by outside pressure will attempt to procuce a weapon sometime in the next eeverel years and could have 3 very limited capability by 1967-63 This underlines the utility of some arms control initiative along the lines suggested in Rootaw'o paper h SANITIZED 8 0 3526 Sec 3 5 I - LBJ L'b Malawi-u I rary This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu