The Good Spy; The Life and Death of Robert Ames
New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xiv, [4], 430 pages. Illustrations, black & white. Cast of Characters. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Endpaper map. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Kai Bird (born September 2, 1951) is an American author and columnist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Bird's biographical works include The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms and The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment. His Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956–1978, is a meld of memoir and history. The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames is a biography of CIA officer Robert Ames, whose career focus was the Middle East. Ames played a key role in starting the peace process that led to the Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO. Ames perished in the April 18, 1983 truck bombing of the American embassy in Beirut. From Wikipedia: "Robert Clayton "Bob" Ames, (March 6, 1934 April 18, 1983) was an American spy, the CIA's Near East Director. He was killed in the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut. In 1956, he joined the US Army from which he switched to the CIA, specializing in the Middle East. He rose to become the CIA's chief analyst for the area. Working for the CIA's Middle East Directorate of Operations, Ames is reputed to have made the first high-level penetration of the PLO. It is claimed one of two senior contacts he made was Hassan Salameh. He was killed on April 18, 1983 when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the US Embassy in Beirut. A total of 63 people were killed in the explosion including Ames, the CIA Lebanon station chief and his deputy, as well as six other CIA officers and eight other Americans." Condition: Very good / very good.
Keywords: Robert Ames, Salameh, Arafat, Asgari, Terrorism, William Casey, CIA, Dewey Clarridge, Richard Helms, Mossad, Mughniyeh, PLO, Palestinian, Mustafa Zein
ISBN: 9780307889751
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