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Report: Iranian Defector in U.S. Oversaw 1983 Beirut Embassy Bombing
(New York Times) Mark Landler - A new book, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, by Kai Bird, shines a spotlight on the April 1983 bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63 people, 17 of them American, including eight CIA officers, one of them Ames. Bird asserts that Iranian intelligence officer Ali Reza Asgari, who defected to the U.S. in 2007 and is still living here under CIA protection, oversaw the 1983 bombing, as well as other terrorist attacks against Americans in Lebanon.