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The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames Kai Bird
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

May 24, 2014 - A singular exception to this culture of ignorance was a man named Robert Ames, the subject of Kai Bird's new biography, The Good Spy: the Life and Death of Robert Ames. Jan 31, 2014 - Others say a trio of Americans who spied for Russia in the 1980s and 1990s — Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen and John Walker — caused immense intelligence damage that led to the loss of vital secrets and the deaths of American informants. Apr 29, 2014 - A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen / Leibovitz, Liel Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. May 23, 2014 - none other than the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Feb 28, 2014 - Bailey is a superb biographer whose specialty is the troubled lives of alcoholic writers: John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Lost Weekend author Charles Jackson. 7 days ago - YnetNews Israel http://www.ynetnews.com ~ New Book: THE GOOD SPY – THE LIFE & DEATH OF ROBERT AMES is available from Amazon http://www.amazon.com with claims of an Iranian General defected to U.S. The Russian Intelligence researcher Pete Earley, who wrote books about Walker and Ames, said both spies outdid Snowden because of the classified operational secrets they divulged and the human lives they cost. Click here to buy: The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames. Jan 4, 2010 - In The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, a biography of CIA agent Ames, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kai Bird writes that George W. May 23, 2014 - Book review: 'The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames' by Kai Bird Washington Post Kai Bird's new book, “The Good Spy,” is full of great morsels and details such as this letter. May 16, 2014 - Our idea of what spies actually do is deeply tainted by a century or so of novels and movies, some better than others but all of them fictional. Robert Ames was an Arabist whose knowledge of the Middle East gathered over decades spent as a CIA officer earned the respect of influential politicians in the region. May 23, 2014 - The book, titled appropriately enough "The Good Spy," is by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. CIA operative Robert Ames was a true-life James Bond who died striving for peace in the Middle East. The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames [Kai Bird] on Amazon.com. Ames was in the process of opening a secret channel between the U. It tells the story of a master case officer named Robert Ames, who developed a deep relationship with the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief of intelligence, Ali Hassan Salameh, known as "Abu Hassan." Salameh had Yet Salameh was also among the CIA's most valuable contacts in the region and was credited for saving the lives of many Americans. With cameos from Nixon, Kissinger, and Arafat, and nailbiter scenes from the Iranian hostage crisis and Beirut embassy bombing, Kai Bird's riveting biography is equal parts thriller and touching elegy. Apr 22, 2014 - Kai Bird, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames (New York: Crown, 2014), 448 pp., $26.00. May 19, 2014 - Thurs, May 22 at 9:00 am: Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution hosts historian Kai Bird to talk about his new book The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames.