Talk:Apollo affair

Experts Agree, Zionists do not

Most serious researchers who have written about this subject (Victor Gilinsky, Roger Mattson, Congressman Morris Udall, CIA director of operations Carl Duckett, CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief John Hadden) confirm there was an illegal diversion. Most Zionists, such as Zalman Shapiro, Israel's foreign agent law firm Arnold & Porter, and Israel lobbyists claim there was no evidence of diversion, despite eyewitness accounts.

Erasing contrary information is not going to win this one and cover up the Apollo Affair. Shalman Zapiro (talk) 22:24, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Allegations = Facts? Not!

Both this article and its external references contain nothing but hits and allegations. They lists all kinds of investigations which came up with no answers. That the FBI inestigated someone or some organization in the 1960s is hardly noteworthy; see FBI#Criticism. Also, J. Edgar Hoover was notoriously biased, and misused the Burueau, as the article about him notes. “He is known to have investigated individuals and groups because of their political beliefs rather than their suspected criminal activity, as well as using the FBI for other illegal activities, such as burglaries and illegal wiretaps.”

Other than adding a few "alleged" remarks in the text, I don't know how else to make it clear that this article seems a case of innuendo - implying something that cannot be actually stated because it is not true. --Eliyahu S ^Talk 16:49, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I cleaned up a minor point - the missing uranium was not alleged. The allegation is over who may or may not have taken the missing uranium. Cheers. ← George ^[talk] 20:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

You really didn't 'clean up' anything. The fact of the matter is that there was no diversion of material to Israel or anywhere else...but there was a diversion...a diversion of attention from what happened at NUMEC...PROCESS LOSSES! You cannot prove a lie and the lie to have everyone chasing their tail was the diversion to Israel theory. That was promoted to help protect the company NUMEC from the potential of the 'DOUBLE L': LIABILITY & LITIGATION! The liability would have put the government in an uncomfortable position for a few reasons. First, it needed NUMEC to produce a product for the Cold War. Second, the Government was not only the customer, but the Regulator, and they did an awful job with that. But they did manage to learn alot of what the effects of low-level ionizing radiation would do to a population thanks to the unwitting participants of the people of Apollo, Pa. The cancers rates in and around the Apollo area are extremely high. As for the missing material...that continued to show on the books at NUMEC long after the NUMEC was sold to Atlantic Richfield and then to Babcock & Wilcox. Process losses that went into the river, up the 124 stacks and all over the people of the town of Apollo, Pa. Every processing facility like Kerr-McGee, Westinghouse, etc., had huge process losses...Westinghouse had over 1200 lbs. And to finally correct you, the total amount lost at the Apollo NUMEC facility was an approximate 1000 lbs of both highly enriched uranium and plutonium. Finally, what Israel was interested in during the early 60's was the technology of the production...they could get their Uranium from Africa or France...or even the United States maybe in a finished product called 'Project Pluto'.---Patty A. born across the street from the Apollo plant and having been through approximately 3 million of documents related to the facility. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.140.59.232 (talk) 05:57, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

In 1966 as a U.S. Atomic Energy Branch Chief I was interviewed by the FBI re my knowledge of Zal Shapiro, NUMECs financial condition, and possible ways that enriched material might have been diverted to Israel. At the time the agents appeared very interested in the fact that NUMEC had shipped two isotopic fueled weather stations for use in the Israeli desert and their potential use to transport radioactive material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.81.58.216 (talk) 16:34, 11 November 2011 (UTC)