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~ IT'S A CONSPIRACY! This, plus about 60 other 'conspira PROFITS Of WAR cies', are wen researched and concisely The Sens.at.ional Story Of The By The National insecurity described. I note with respect the Council World-Wide Arms Conspiracy author(s) unemotionally present both By Ari Ben-Menashe Publ: Earth Works Press, Berkeley, sides of the picture and thus appear not CA, USA. to take sides. The information is non Publ: Allen & Unwin, NSW. Aust. Cost: $ 395 pages with Cost: $20JJO (Australia) stop and leaves you gasping for breath. index Available: The Sydney Esoterk Then, just when you are getting seri A mind blowing book! Whether it's Bookshop. See advert page 60 this ously convinced that they are an out to true or made up, it tiestog·ether many issue. get you, there are several rather humorous international intrigues into a very read quizzes and examples to set you off. An excellent book! Despite the frivo able and jaw-dropping story. lous-sounding title and author(s), this On top of all this, references are sup Ari Ben·Menashe tells the story of book is a researcher's delight. It has plied, thus ensuring a future article or his life as an intelligence offioer in short concise, and surprisingly well two in Nexus Magazines to come. Israeli Intelligence up to his fall from researched paragraph,s outlining 250 grace just a few years ago. pages of some wen-known and some His Job' operating with some of the not so well-known, conspiracies. highest levels of the Israeli Cabinet Although most of the conspiracies involved the negotiation and organisa covered are American based, there is tion of arms deals, on a grand scale. still enough international intrigue to A career story linking such apparent make it worth buying. ly unconnected scandals such :1s the • Did the US encourage Saddam death of media baron Robert Maxwell, Hussein to attack Kuwait? Mark Thatcher (son of Margaret • Was William RandoIph Hearst a Thatcher, Alan Bond, West Australia paid agent of AdoEr HitleF? Inc., several military coups in South • Were Malcolm X and Karen American nations, the Iran-Contragate Silkwood murdered bJy the US govern Scandal and more. ment? It is one of those books that most • Was George Bush a CIA agent in publishers will not print, and which do the 1960s? not think will be around for .too long, • Why did the US government take which is unfortunate because the book Nazi war criminals under its wing? is an excellent story in itself, despite "-- -.:-:->-- -~ .... -- --.-......::~ ---. ... : : FEBRUARY-MARCH '93 NEXUS·S7