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Robert Clayton Ames (March 6, 1934 – April 18, 1983) was an operations officer and Near East Director for the Central Intelligence Agency. He was killed in the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut.
May 22, 2014 · 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 U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
Robert Downing Ames (March 23, 1889 – November 27, 1931) was an American actor. Early life. Ames was born in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] where his father, Louis Mason Ames, was employed as an accountant for an insurance company and his mother, Mary Elma (née Downing) Ames, worked as a voice coach. [2] Career. Non-acting.
Apr 22, 2014 · The Secret Life of Robert Ames. 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...
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 ...
Oct 20, 2014 · 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. Bird argues that for more than a decade, Ames was the sole U.S. conduit to Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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May 26, 2015 · For years Robert Ames—The Good Spy—tried to nudge both sides toward peace until he picked the wrong day to visit the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and was killed by a car bomb.
