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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.
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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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 ...
Apr 22, 2014 · The story of the American spy's contacts with the PLO underscores the necessity of talking to adversaries. by Paul R. Pillar. Kai Bird, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (New York ...
May 22, 2014 · In a new book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (Crown/Random House, 2014), Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Kai Bird explains how Ames was able to make these ...
4 days ago · On April 18, 1983, Ames traveled to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and while there was killed by a truck bomb that also killed 8 other CIA agents and a total of 17 Americans. Bird finished his talk by emphasizing Robert Ames’s faithfulness to American values and stated that Ames’s commitment to these values was what made him such a good agent.
May 19, 2014 · Among his colleagues at the CIA, Robert Ames was considered the quintessential spy. Integral in the Oslo Peace Accords, the late secret agent is now the subject of Kai Bird's book, The Good Spy.
