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<text id=91TT2373>
<title>
Oct. 28, 1991: Spinner of Tangled Yarns
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 28, 1991 Ollie North:"Reagan Knew Everything"
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 72
Spinner of Tangled Yarns
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<p> Who is Ari Ben-Menashe? A lowly translator who never rose
above unimportant desk jobs, according to the Israeli
government. A teller of "bald-faced lies," says George Bush. A
demon peddler of arms by his own account. Seymour Hersh says
Ben-Menashe is an expert on signal intelligence who served more
than 10 years in the Israeli army and in 1987, so he claims,
became an intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
In mid-1990 he brought his story to Hersh beleaving the U.S. for
Australia and a life of exile.
</p>
<p> But Ben-Menashe has been eager to put his name to all
kinds of tales. He has told the Senate that CIA chief-designate
Robert Gates was a central figure in secret U.S. sales of arms
to Iraq. He claims Robert McFarlane was simultaneously
NaSecurity Adviser and the top Israeli spy in Washington. He
impressed one reporter who has dealt with him as a fabricator
who nonetheless did have connecin Israeli intelligence. Some of
his stories are unbelievable; some seem to contain a kernel of
truth. The big question is which are which.
</p>
</body></article>
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