http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/457829.html
Vanunu to be questioned on possible parole violation
By Yuval Yoaz, Roni Singer, and Gideon Alon, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu is to be questioned by police in the coming days, in connection with a possible violation of the terms of his release from jail.
An interview to foreign media given by Vanunu is in contravention of one of the conditions of his release in April 2004 after a term of 18 years for revealing details of Israel's nuclear program to a British newspaper.
The restrictions include a ban on speaking to the media and travelling abroad.
Vanunu will be questioned by a special team of Israel Police, the Shin Bet security service and the State Prosecution, Israel Radio reported Thursday.
On Monday, the High Court of Justice rejected Vanunu's petition against these restrictions.
The court ruled there was no doubt Vanunu was willing to expose classified information regarding the Dimona reactor and is as determined as ever to do so. This backed prosecution claims that Vanunu is still a security risk and has shown he is willing go public with any more information he can find.
In his defense, Vanunu said he had disclosed all material in his possession about Israel's nuclear capabilities and there was therefore no justification in restricting him beyond his prison sentence.
Two interviews have so far been published this week with Vanunu in the foreign press.
In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic weekly Al-Wassat, Vanunu is quoted as saying "Israel possesses between 100-200 nuclear weapons including a neutron bomb and hydrogen bombs." He is also quoted as saying that are "near-certain indications" that Israel was behind the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
In an interview publisher Sunday with the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat, Vanunu is quoted as saying that the Dimona nuclear reactor endangers the lives of millions throughout the Middle East.
Vanunu told the paper that a strong earthquake in the region may crack the reactor, causing radioactive leakage that would result in the death of millions.
Vanunu also told the paper that the Jordanian government should prepare for possible leaks from the reactor, just as Israel has plans to distribute iodine anti-radiation pills to residents living close to the nuclear reactor in Dimona.
He said that Jordanians living close to the border with Israel should be examined for possible nuclear radiation, explaining that the Hashemite Kingdom is particularly at risk from the reactor as it operates mainly when "the wind blows toward Jordan."
He said he does not believe that the United States and European nations will pressure Israel into revealing the full extent of its nuclear capabilities.
Vanunu also took the opportunity to blast United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Mohammed El Baradei for visiting Israel earlier this month and not putting any pressure on it to open up its nuclear program to international inspection.
"He should have done here what he did in Iraq," he was quoted as saying.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/israel/documents/exchange/index.html
The Kennedy/Ben Gurion/Eshkol Nuclear Exchange
Documents
Document 1. On 5 July, less than ten days after Levi Eshkol became prime minister, Ambassador Barbour delivered a 3-page letter to him from President John Kennedy. Not since President Eisenhower's message to Ben Gurion, in the midst of the Suez crisis in November 1956, had an American president been so blunt with an Israeli prime minister. Kennedy told Eshkol that the American commitment and support of Israel 'could be seriously jeopardized' if Israel did not let the United States obtain 'reliable information' about Israel's efforts in the nuclear field. In the letter Kennedy presented specific demands on how the American inspection visits to Dimona should be executed. Since the United States had not been involved in the building of Dimona and no international law or agreement had been violated, Kennedy demands were indeed unprecedented. They amounted, in effect, to American ultimatum.
Source: Israel State Archive, Jerusalem
For more information: Israel and the Bomb, 153-162.
I'd grill him about Jimmy Hoffas' disappearance.