CQ567484tj oa P R O VE D F O R R E L ' 'S E--C IA INFODATE 25-Au -2015 I o G SECRE NSITIVE 9 tt C o c - b 3 CIAAcr- ---------------- 11 MAR1976 DDS T-1290 76 MEMORANDUM FOR Director FROM SUBJECT l 3 NSC o CIAAct of Central Carl E Duckett Deputy Director Intelligence for Science and Technology Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation NUMEC 1 The attached memorandum dated 9' March 1972 ummarizes the NUMECcase It was written b - ----- w o originate action on tis case an w o is available to answer any further questions you may have 2 Since the Agenc'y was looking at this case from the point of view of obtaining information on the nuclear intelligence capability of a foreign government we did not make a concentrated effort to follow this case from the standpoint of its domestic implications subsequent to the time of the attached memorandum 3 It is our understanding that Mr Helms brought the intelligence aspects of this case to the attention of Presidents Johnson and Nixon as we11 as Attorney General Clark Director of the FBI Mr Hoover Secretaries of State Rusk and Rogers Deputy Secretary of Defense Rush General Manager of the AEC Brown the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs Mr Kissinger 4 The matter was again brought up recently in your discussions with The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy The DDS Talso briefed the Commissioners of The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on NUMEC The ADD S Tand also discussed the matter at some length with Mr M u_r_p h-y- Staff Director of The Joint Committee on 5 March 1976 b 3 CIAAct b 3 NSC b 3 CIAAct C05674848 PPROVED FOR RELEASE - CIA INFO DATE 25-Au -2015 SEC SITIVE SUBJECT Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation NUMEC S T-he fol lowing information outlines Agency efforts to persuade the FBI to undertake an investigation of Shapiro and NUMECand to keep track of its activities in this regard a On 2 April 1968 Mr Helms sent a letter to the Attorney General urging that the FBI initiate a discreet intelligence investigation of Dr Shapiro Mr Hoover had suggested this course of action b On 23 April 1968 the Attorney General called Mr Helms to say that he had directed the FBI to investigate c On 3 September 1969 Mr Hoover sent Mr Helms contemplate any a letter stating that the AEC doesn't further action on the case at that time Mr Hoover said that the Director of Security AEC had asked Shapiro whether he had passed classified information to any foreign government Shapiro replied that he had not Apparently no mention was made of the passage of nuclear material to a foreign government Mr Hoover further stated that the FBI was discontinuing any further active investigation of the case d On 13 October 1969 Mr Helms sent a memorandum to Hoover FBI urging him to conduct audio surveillance of Shapiro since it appeared that Shapiro planned to emigrate to Israel e On 17 October 1969 Mr Hoover sent a memorandum to Mr Helms stating that he had reviewed the Shapiro matter and Mr Helms should take the matter up with the Attorney Genera This was not done f On 4 October 1970 the CIA asked the FBI if they had any further information on Shapiro's activities On 3 February 1971 the FBI sent a response to CIA based on the 1970 request One FBI report was received from the October 1970 request that was germane to the problem The report indicated Shapiro had requested from an official of the Kawecki Berylco Company to be brought up to date on a sensitive AEC project two weeks after he joined the company There was no further FBI reporting on the case after that - 2 - SEC SITIVE C05674848 PPROVED FOR RELEASE - CIA INFO DATE 25-Au -2015 SUBJECT Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation NUMEC b O b 3 -NptSecAct EO 1352'6 3 _3 b 6 25Yrs - 25X1 - - 7 Our files in the NUMECcase consist for the most part of data received from the ABC and the FBI A number of FBI reports were received and we presume these reports included all the substantive data collected by the FBI through February 1971 though we have no assurance of that fact The AEC information consists of only a few documents of their investigation of the NUMECcase on the results No investigative reports are in our file b 3 NSC b 6 Attachment As stated SECR -SE'NSITIVE