![]() ![]() ![]() He was no organization man, maturing from shenanigans during training at the CIA’s Camp Peary to an unauthorized meeting with Yasir Arafat in 1977. Sadly, it is also a story - as it is today - of missed opportunities, steps backward rather than forward, and increased polarization of the combatants.Īmes would have fit well in academia, but he became instead a fine CIA covert officer. He has written the story of a man trying desperately to make a difference and to find a way forward on Israel-Palestine issues. In Bill Casey’s eulogy, he was “the closest thing to an irreplaceable man.”īird has crafted a biography that intersects with the history of the Middle East, the PLO, and Lebanon from the early 1960s to 1983. He seemed to be everywhere it mattered in those years, including as liaison with the PLO in the years when the U.S. Ames was an Arab linguist and the Agency’s most senior Mideast analyst when he died. Robert Ames, “The Good Spy” in Kai Bird’s masterful biography, was a senior CIA officer killed in the Beirut embassy bombing in 1983. ![]()
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