Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms
Network. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. 394 pages.
If this book is even half true, it means that less than ten percent
of the Reagan and Bush administration double-dealing was ever revealed to
the American public. Ari Ben-Menashe's description of the U.S.-Israeli arms
network can only be described as "sensational." If you accept his scenario,
it's apparent that an impotent U.S. Congress, once they got a whiff of the
dimensions of the problem and considered their options, had no choice but to
cover it all up. Some journalists who have verified portions of Ben-Menashe's
story have found that his information is excellent. Others just wish he
would disappear and are inclined to discredit him, because to accept him is
to admit that you've been chasing your tail for ten years and missing it all.
With Ben-Menashe, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
Ben-Menashe was one of six on Israel's top-secret Joint Committee on
Israel-Iran Relations, and spent years globe-trotting for them, setting up
fronts and transferring millions in cash. In 1980 he saw George Bush in Paris
meeting with a high Iranian official, and in 1986 he briefed Bush. In 1981
Robert Gates helped him with his suitcase containing $56 million. Others in
this book include Margaret Thatcher's son Mark, Chilean arms dealer Carlos
Cardoen, and Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner, to name a few. If you start
reading this book, watch out for Mossad hit men and hold on to your hat.
ISBN 1-879823-01-2
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