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Robert Ames was a CIA operations officer and Near East Director who was killed in the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing. He was also a former NCAA basketball player who won the championship with La Salle University in 1954.
Apr 22, 2014 · A biography of the CIA officer who opened a channel with the PLO in the 1970s Middle East. The book reveals the challenges, dangers and tragedies of his clandestine mission and its implications for U.S. policy.
May 22, 2014 · Learn about Robert Ames, the CIA agent who established ties with the PLO and was killed in the 1983 Beirut bombing. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius discuss his life and legacy in this Wilson Center event.
"The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames" is an in depth view into CIA operative Robert Ames and the Middle East/Israeli/Western World conflicts and politics. The author, Kai Bird, knew Bob Ames as an adolescent when both families were stationed in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
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Oct 20, 2014 · Robert Ames was an influential CIA operative in the Middle East who was killed in the blast that leveled the U.S. embassy in Beirut in April 1983. Bird argues that for more than a decade, Ames was the sole U.S. conduit to Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
May 22, 2014 · A CIA legend, Ames was known for having established remarkable back-channel connections with Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization when it was still banned as...
The Good Spy is Kai Bird's remarkable biography of legendary CIA officer Robert Ames, who was killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
