' - r -'1 r c• oF ctAss- FIED June 3 1964 E O 12356 Sec 3 4 NLJ 86-J 93 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT l3y NARA Date I -- J - Your soft sell to Eshkol connected a lot better than we realized yesterday Israelis came around this morning and 1 Agreed to let us reassure Nasser on Dimona 2 Agreed to lAEA observers in joint desalting study 3 Agreed in principle to IAEA controls on any big desalting reactor 4 In return for a nine month extension of present US bilateral on existing small reactor agreed to ask for IAEA agreement within that time For what it 1 s worth I gave Israelis a hard line after your meeting yesterday saying I knew that while you didn 1t want to press Israelis so hard as to spoil good atinosphere of visit you as well as rest of us were disappointed at lack of Israeli response on any points This may just have helped While all returns aren 1t in this visit seems to have netted out a distinct plus So far Arab reaction especially from Cairo is most restrained your warning to Kamel took while Israelis are highly pleased We also managed to steer press successfully so far away from sensitive arms issue 1¥ r Results of Eshkol's visit analyzed White House 3 June 1964 U S Declassified Documents Online https link gale com apps doc CK2349271220 USDD u wash74137 sid USDD xid 0d648a9e Accessed 9 July 2020 NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu Read related article Duplicity Deception and Self-Deception Israel the United States and the Dimona Inspections 1964-65 2020-11-03