Ben-Menashe, who worked for more than a dozen years in the inner circles of Israel's clandestine services, tells what actually happened during the 1980s: Israel and America prevented peace in the Middle East, the US supplied chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein, and Ronald Reagan and George Bush swapped arms with the Iranians for a delay in the release of the hostages to win the 1980 election. Published by Sheridan Square Press, Inc., 145 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012-1054. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Ari Ben-Menashe was born in Tehran, Iran, to an Iraqi-Jewish family, and served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in signals intelligence. He was a civilian employee of the External Relations Department of IDF Military Intelligence and was a special intelligence advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He now lives in Canada.
The author, a former Israeli intelligence officer, discusses the Iran-Contra Affair, the "October Surprise," and American sales of weapons to Saddam Hussein.
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