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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 by Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, is more than a riveting portrait of Robert Ames, one of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s most ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
May 22, 2014 · the CIA in Washington. Bob Ames died in a suicide car bomb explosion at the American. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in April of 1983. Bob Ames is buried in Arlington National. Cemetery. His headstone ...
