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 Shimon Peres |
Newly revealed papers from the mid-1970s signed by then-Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres suggest that Israel and South Africa were allies working on a nuclear weapons programs, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
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The idea has been met with a firm denial by now-Israeli President Peres, but the papers purport to reflect "top secret" minutes of meetings between P.W. Botha, who was South Africa's defense minister but now is deceased, and Peres, whose signature appears on the paperwork.
In denying the Israeli role of offering nuclear weapons to South Africa, Peres' office said "there exists no basis in reality."
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However, the documents were uncovered in South Africa by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, while researching for his just-published book, "Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid."
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Israeli authorities sought to stop South Africa from acting on Polakow-Suransky's request to declassify the documents but were not successful.
Instead of Israel offering South Africa a nuclear weapon, defense analysts who recall that period have told G2 Bulletin that South Africa was the laboratory to help Israel develop its own nuclear weapons.
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