Cockburn, Andrew and Leslie. Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the
U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 416 pages.
Ever since Truman's support of the birth of Israel in 1948, U.S.
relations have favored its aggressive policies, even at the expense of
U.S. interests in the region. Much of this was encouraged in the name of a
secure Jewish homeland -- something which few U.S. politicians dared to
criticize -- but behind the public facade there existed a world where the
CIA became dependent on Mossad for intelligence, Israel's economy became
dependent on profits from arms transfers, and policy itself was exercised
through proxy wars.
"Dangerous Liaison" takes advantage of the window into the secret
Israeli machine that opened briefly in the wake of the Iranian revolution,
Iran-contra, and recent Mossad scandals. It is especially helpful in
understanding the influence of the Israeli arms industry, which operates
on a revolving-door basis with various elements of Israel's intelligence
community and has been all too eager to supply many of the world's tyrants.
Less a diplomatic history than a study of the dark underside of the
U.S.-Israeli relationship, it soon becomes clear that the former provides
the rhetoric, but the latter gets all the action.
ISBN 0-06-016444-1
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