The good spy: the life and death of Robert Ames

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Notes

1. See Wilford, America’s Great Game.

2. See Aburish, Beirut Spy: The St. George Hotel Bar, for a detailed and vivid account of what transpired at the Saint George Hotel during the Cold War.

3. For more on the Ames-Salameh meeting on Hamra Street see Ignatius, Agents of Innocence.

4. On this, see Aaron J. Klein, Striking Back. The Israeli response to the Olympic massacre was also known as Operation Bayonet as the campaign was conducted by a specially trained hit-team (code named ‘kidon’ (Trans: ‘bayonet’ in Hebrew)). This formed the basis for Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed 2005 feature film Munich.

5. For more on poor American intelligence before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, see Jervis, Why Intelligence Fails.

6. For more on the devastating massacres at the Sabra and Shatila camps, see Nuwayhed Al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila: September 1982.