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  1. American. Occupation (s) Near East Director, Central Intelligence Agency. Robert Clayton Ames (March 6, 1934 – April 18, 1983) was an operations officer and Near East specialist for the Central Intelligence Agency. He was killed in the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut.

  2. Published May 22, 2014. 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. Bird was the co ...

  3. May 22, 2014 · On May 22, the Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Kai Bird to discuss his new book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (Crown/Random ...

  4. 4 days ago · Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird appears in a conversation with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to discuss Bird's new biography, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames. Robert Ames was the CIA officer who created the first clandestine contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was among those killed in the April 1983 truck bomb attack that destroyed the ...

  5. Oct 20, 2014 · Reviewed by John Waterbury. 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, which Washington has blamed on Hezbollah and Iran. Bird argues that for more than a decade, Ames was the sole U.S. conduit to Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation ...

  6. Oct 13, 2016 · The good spy: the life and death of Robert Ames Jeffrey G. Karam Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University Correspondence jkaram@brandeis.edu Pages 528-531 | Published online: 13 Oct 2016

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  8. Kai Bird's The Good Spy is a well-written, fascinating biography of CIA field agent, Arabist and martyr, Robert Ames. But it's also biography loaded with bias. Interestingly, when Kai Bird was a child, he knew his subject, Robert Ames, and the Ames family who lived alongside Bird's own family when the author's parents served in the State ...

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