JERUSALEM, July 7 (UPI) -- Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu says the International Atomic Energy Agency is failing to adequately investigate Israel's nuclear program.
Vanunu made the remarks to the Washington Times as IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei arrived for a rare visit to Israel. The former nuclear technician complained ElBaradei made no effort to get in touch with him even though the media has widely reported his whereabouts in East Jerusalem.
Vanunu served 17 years in an Israeli prison for revealing details of the country's nuclear secrets and is under court order not to speak to foreigners, enter Internet chat rooms or approach foreign embassies.
Vanunu urged the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog to demand entrance to the Dimona reactor, where he had worked and secretly photographed several underground and secret floors, including a plutonium-processing facility and what scientists later said was a model for a nuclear bomb.
"I think ElBaradei is operating in secret with (the Israelis)," Vanunu told the newspaper. "All he'll hear ... will be propaganda and disinformation."
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