WORLD : Ex-Mossad Chief Scorns Book
A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency today criticized government attempts to prevent publication of a book by a former agent but admitted that some of its claims are true.
A New York court Thursday rejected an Israeli demand to ban Victor Ostrovsky’s book, “By Way of Deception,” in the United States, and Israel Radio said the publicity had made it a bestseller.
“I can say with certainty that we have here a mixture of real facts--methods, names, units--to give the stories a coloring of authenticity, and all sorts of nonsense with no basis in truth,” former Mossad chief Meir Amit told Israel Radio.
The book says the Mossad withheld from the United States information on the whereabouts of American hostages in Lebanon and failed to pass on advance warning of a Beirut car bomb that killed 241 U.S. Marines.
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