Israeli nukes... interesting.
If you are not familiar with this old Washington Post article it is worth a read:
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Excerpts:
“By Glenn FrankelDecember 5, 1987
JERUSALEM — The most powerful members of the Israeli intelligence establishment past and present came together in clandestine conclave on a barren hillside last week — to plant a tree.
The head of the pathologically secretive spy agency, the Mossad, was there, as was his counterpart with Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service. Five former heads of those agencies and three former military intelligence chiefs were also present. Their mission: to pay final tribute to a beloved member of their covert fraternity — the late CIA chief of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton.”....
they dedicated a memorial stone that read, in English, Hebrew and Arabic: “In memory of a dear friend, James (Jim) Angleton” but that gave no indication of who Angleton was or what he did....
Angleton played a crucial role in the early years of the young Jewish state. In the 1950s and early 1960s, when most of official Washington was wary of — even hostile to — Israel, he helped forge links between the Mossad and the CIA that established the basis for cooperation in intelligence gathering that still exists today....”