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Starred Review on October 1, 2014 | Audio
From the late 1960s until his death in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, CIA operative Robert Ames held increasingly influential posts in the Middle East and Washington. An ardent and accomplished Arabist, he was particularly skilled at forming valuable and trusting relationships among major intelligence figures, most notably with Ali Hassan Salameh, Yasir Arafat's intelligence chief, who may have been the mastermind behind the 1972 Olympic murders in Munich. This particular re...Log In or Sign Up to Read More