Word: hersh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maxwell, 68, commit suicide because he was distraught about the tangled affairs of his debt-laden companies? Was his death somehow related to his alleged links with Israeli intelligence? Only two weeks earlier, Seymour Hersh had alleged in his book The Samson Option that the billionaire maintained ties to Mossad. (Maxwell promptly sued for libel.) If he did indeed have a Mossad connection, did that give someone a reason to have Maxwell killed? Other seemingly farfetched speculation suggests a CIA connection. Or, alternatively, did a member of his crew, rumored to be occasional victims of his wrath, exact revenge...
...planned illegal arms shipments to Iraq with him in the mid-1980s. Gates convincingly disputed the charges during the Senate hearings. The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded after lengthy investigation that no "credible evidence" supported the allegations. But Ben-Menashe's credibility gauge took a jump when investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, in his new book, The Samson Option, named Ben-Menashe as a source for his charge that Nicholas Davies, foreign editor of London's Daily Mirror, was an Israeli agent. Davies denied a meeting described by Ben-Menashe, but was fired last week after the Israeli produced a witness...
Shamir supposedly sought Soviet goodwill "as a means of offsetting Israel's traditional reliance on the U.S.," which disturbed him for personal as well as diplomatic reasons. According to Ben-Menashe, says Hersh, Shamir "viscerally disliked the U.S." The unnamed Israeli said that "Shamir has always been fascinated with authority and strong regimes. He sees the U.S. as very soft, bourgeois, materialistic and effete...
Invitations had hardly gone out before the conference planners were blindsided by an electrifying accusation of Israeli bad faith. In a book published this week (see following story), investigative reporter Seymour Hersh says he was told that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir shared U.S. nuclear secrets with the Soviet Union. According to two sources, Hersh writes, Shamir supplied Moscow with information on the targeting of American strategic missiles, which he received from Israel's spy in Washington, Jonathan Pollard...
...Menashe? A lowly translator who never rose above unimportant desk jobs, according to the Israeli government. A teller of "bald-faced lies," says George Bush. A demon peddler of arms by his own account. Seymour Hersh says Ben-Menashe is an expert on signal intelligence who served more than 10 years in the Israeli army and in 1987, so he claims, became an intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In mid-1990 he brought his story to Hersh before leaving the U.S. for Australia and a life of exile...