Israel Considering Ways to Muzzle Vanunu After Prison Release

Israeli security officials are looking into ways to prevent a former nuclear technician from divulging secrets about Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons program, the London Guardian reported today (see GSN, May 13).

Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to prison for 18 years after giving pictures and descriptions of alleged Israeli nuclear weapons facilities to the London Sunday Times in 1986.   He is due for release in 2004 and Israeli officials are concerned that he will reveal more secrets after being freed.

Vanunu has said he wants to leave Israel when he is released from prison. Security officials are considering barring him from traveling outside the country or speaking in public (Gavin Rabinowitz/London Guardian, Dec. 31).

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