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Jefferson Morley

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Rafi Eitan at an Israeli cabinet meeting in 2006 (Photo: Yoav Lemmer-Pool/Getty Images)

Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan died last week and the New York Times obituary mentioned suspicion that he had played a role in diverting enriched uranium from a US facility owned by Zionists in the 1960s so that Israel could get the bomb. When a pro-Israel group complained the Times removed the assertion though the evidence is overwhelming in the eyes of experts, Jefferson Morley reports.