Graham E. Fuller Former vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council; author, 'Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East'

Why America Needs Good Spies Like the CIA's Robert Ames

Posted: 05/29/2014 | http://grahamefuller.com/huffington-post-why-america-needs-good-spies-like-the-cias-robert-ames/

I've just been sitting up all night reading "The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames," a fascinating biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Kai Bird. Ames was a remarkable CIA officer -- and a colleague -- who played a key personal role in U.S. intelligence and policymaking on the Palestinian-Israeli issue between the 1970s and 1980s. Ames died in 1983 in a massive blast at the American Embassy in Beirut when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into the entryway.