in Israel Will Cost $190,000,000
B. G's 'White Book' Reported Desalination Plant
Revealing Espionage Activities
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LONDON (JTA) — Former
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion's "White Book," submitted
last week to Dov Joseph, Israel's
minister of justice, contains a rev-
elation that a West German work-
ing as a secret agent for Israel
betrayed an entire network of
Israeli agents in Egypt in 1954.
The 1954 security mishap brought
about the ouster of Pinhas Lavon
as Israel defense minister.
Terence Prittie, diplomatic
correspondent of the Guardian,
who has just returned from
Israel, said the memorandum
contained "sensational revela-
tions" about the "competing
and interlocking" activities of
Israeli and Arab secret services,
with special emphasis on the
activities of Col. Osman Nonni,
former chief of the Egyptian in-
telligence service.
According to Prittie, the Ben-
Gurion report alleges that the
Egyptian colonel won over Paul
Frank, the German working for
Israel. and that Frank agreed to
work for Col. Nouri and in so do-
ing. betrayed the Israeli network
in Egypt, all of them Egyptian
Jews. At least two of the Jews
were executed, one committed
suicide and several others were
sentenced to long prison terms.
Prittie also says that, according
to Ben-Gurion's report, Frank
later collaborated again with
Nouri when the latter was sent to
Bonn to develop Egyptian secret
service activities there.
Frank's collaboration with Egypt
in Bonn was discovered by West
Germany and Frank was tried
there and sent to prison for 12
years.
The British journalist described
Nonni as apparently Egypt's most
successful exponent of counter-
intelligence against Israel and the
chief architect of Egypt's intelli-
gence network in Europe.
The most interesting item in
the Ben-Gurion report, Prittie
writes, was that Egypt had sent
ol. Nonni to Nigeria as its am-
bassador and that Noun was
believed to have had a principal
role in efforts to organize oppo-
sition to Mrs. Golda Meir,
Israel's foreign minister, on her
visit there last week.
These efforts failed. and the
Nigerian government issued a
statement warning against any
subversive activities which were
not in Nigeria's interests.
Prittie _claims that Ben-Gurion
decided to produce his own report
on the proceedings involving
Frank because he had never been
satisfied that Frank had only
given, information to a foreign
power while he was in Germany.
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list for the next general elections
to Parliament and to Histadrut.
Non-inclusion in turn raised the
prospect that Achdut would not
continue with alignment talks and
that Lavon's followers in Mapai
might quit their party and join
Achdut which has consistently
championed Lavon's case in the
simmering controversy of the 1954
mishap.
Ben-Gurion's followers in Ma-
pai and Histadrut oppose align-
ment if Lavon's followers walked
out of Mapai.
Meanwhile, the opposition left-
wing Mapam party called on Ach-
dut to discontinue the talks with
Mapai and to join with Mapam.
Harvard Excavators Find
Ruins of Ancient Temple
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (JTA)-
Harvard University officials an-
nounce the finding of the remains
of a temple in Jordan which may
be the ancient sanctuary of the
Samaritans, a dissident Jewish
sect which has survived into mod-
ern times.
The remains were found under
previously discovered ruins of a
Roman temple on Mount Gerizim.
The Samaritans contended that
Mount Gerizim was the divine
choice for ancient Israel's cen-
tral shrine and built their shrine
there. Ever since, they have ob-
served the Passover rites on Mount
Gerizim.
Participating in the excavations
are the Harvard University Divin-
ity School, Drew University, and
the McCormick Theological Sem-
inary.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The cost of
constructing a nuclear - powered
water desalination installation in
Israel, as envisaged in preliminary
joint planning between the United
States and Israel governments, is
$190,000,000, it was revealed by
Charles F. MacGowan, director of
the office of saline water of the
Department of the Interior.
MacGowan's figure was the first
given publicly since President
Johnson and Israel's Prime Min-
ister Levi Eshkol agreed on the
joint project in Washington last
June.
Since then, joint U.S. and Israeli
teams have agreed on further de-
tails of the project, which will
involve the building in Israel of
atom - powered desalination plant
capable of producing up to 200
megawatts of electric power and
furnishing, at the same time, 125,-
000,000 gallons of fresh water for
Israel's use.
The Department of the Inte-
rior official made his announce-
ment in an address to the
seventh annual Conference on
Science and Technology in Is-
rael, conducted here by the
American Technion Society. The
group provides technical and fi-
nancial aid to Technion, the
Israel Institute of Technology,
in Haifa.
At the concluding session, the
formation of a "scientific peace
corps" for Israel was urged after
an address by Dr. Alex Keynan,
chairman of Israel's National Coun-
cil of Research and Development.
He told the 600 delegates at the
session that "the bottleneck hold-
ing back Israel's accelerated scien-
tific development is the acute
shortage of qualified scientists in
many disciplines."
He pointed out that the total en-
rollment in all of Israel's institu-
tions of higher learning, on both
the undergraduate and graduate
level s, is no more than about
18,000 students.
B. Sumner Gruzen, a New York
architect who is president of the
American Technion Society, told
the conference that, despite the
acute shortage of trained technical
personnel in Israel, Technion has
had to turn down nearly 900 stu-
dent applicants, this year "owing
to lack of facilities."
The student enrollment, he said,
has been growing annually, reach-
ing this year a total of 2,800 under-
graduate and 800 graduate stu-
dents.
Dr. Sydney Goldstein, Harvard
mathematician and expert in aero-
dynamics, told the conference that
he is conducting a/nationwide ef-
fort to find suitable faculty mem-
bers who would teach in various
engineering faculties at Technion.
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Eshkol Fails to Back
Lavon for Candidacy
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Negotia-
tions for an alignment of Premier
Levi Eshkol's Mapai with the
Achdut Avodah, another labor
group. were snagged over what
initially had been a secondary
issue.
The issue was the place of Pin-
has Lavon, a Mapai leader and
central figure in a 10-year contro-
versy over responsibility for the
disastrous security mishap which
occurred when he was defense
minister. Forced out of office in
the controversy, he continued 'his
fight for vindication. That fight
led to a head-on clash with then
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
The complicated alignment
proposal called for an independ-
ent Achdut Histadrut faction
within a joint Mapai-Achdut
electroral bloc and Mapai con-
sent to postpone electoral re-
forms to which Mapai had been
committed under Ben-Gurion's
leadership as premier.
The snag was the disclosure
that Eshkol was not prepared to
fight to have Lavon's name in-
cluded in the joint Mapai-Achdut
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