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You mentioned another JFK document that's very important and I think will interest you.

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One of the things that's withheld and is in the JFK collection right now is the testimony of James Angleton about the Israeli nuclear program.

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It's a 113-page document, heavily redacted to this day.

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The redactions clearly pertain to Israel.

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If the president and this effort are serious, that testimony will be declassified because Angleton controlled the Oswald file on the one hand, and he was in contact with the Israelis on the others.

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Why would the Dimona project, the Israeli nuclear program, which has never officially been admitted by anybody but Israel, what would that have to do with the assassination of JFK?

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There were profound conflicts between Israel and the Kennedy White House over the nuclear program.

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Kennedy was pressing for on-site inspections, which the Israelis resisted because they realized that they had a bomb-making program.

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Angleton was called in and he was grilled about lots of things, about domestic spying, about the Israeli nuclear program, about the JFK assassination.

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It is interesting that one of the only major policy changes that Johnson made in the year after the president's murder was on the Israeli nuclear program.

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He dropped the demand for on-site inspections.

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He dropped the demand that AIPAC be classified as a domestic lobby.

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And this is a tough call for the president because he's going to get very strong pushback from his national security apparatus, supported by Israeli interests, to say, no, you can't talk about that.

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That's not permitted.