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category: "Organized Crime"
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category: "JFK Assassination"
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tags:
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- Person
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- EugeneBrading
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- RobertMaxwell
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- AriBenMenashe
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- Vanunu
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summary: "Nicholas Davies was the foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of operating as a Mossad intelligence asset, passing Mordechai Vanunu's location to the Mossad, and co-directing an arms-dealing firm with Ari Ben-Menashe."
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summary: "Foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of working for the Mossad and dealing arms with Ari Ben-Menashe, and dismissed that October."
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created: 2026-05-14
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updated: 2026-09-21
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born: 1937-03-14
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died: 2016-01-28
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died: 2016-01
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location: "London, United Kingdom"
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Nicholas Alan Francis Benedict Davies was born on March 14, 1937, and died on January 28, 2016. He spent most of his career at [[Mirror Group]] Newspapers, which he joined in 1961 as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter after starting at the Birmingham Post and Mail. He served as foreign editor of the [[Daily Mirror]] for fourteen years until [[Robert Maxwell]] dismissed him in 1991.[^1]
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Nicholas Davies was a British journalist who joined [[Mirror Group]] Newspapers in the 1960s and was foreign editor of the [[Daily Mirror]] for about fifteen years under [[Robert Maxwell]]. The paper dismissed him on October 28, 1991, when it gave his age as 52. He died at the end of January 2016 after a short illness.[^1]
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### Allegations in "The Samson Option"
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### Libel Litigation and Resolution
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Maxwell and Davies both sued Hersh and his publisher for libel following publication. Maxwell's suit terminated with his death in November 1991. Mirror Group Newspapers, after Maxwell's estate became embroiled in the pension fraud scandal, reversed course and settled with Hersh, issuing an apology and paying substantial damages. Davies did not pursue his own libel case to trial.[^1]
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Maxwell and Davies began libel proceedings against Hersh and his British publisher, Faber and Faber, which sued in turn. Maxwell died on November 5, 1991. In August 1994 Mirror Group Newspapers apologized "unreservedly" in a London court for its articles of October 1991, acknowledged that its "attempts to impugn" Hersh's integrity had been "entirely improper," and agreed to pay him and Faber "substantial damages" and their costs.[^7]
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Sources in Britain and Israel publicly disputed Ben-Menashe's reliability as a witness, and no subsequent independent evidence emerged to corroborate the specific allegations about Davies's intelligence role or his involvement in the Vanunu affair.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: "Nicholas Davies (journalist)," Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Davies_(journalist)
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[^1]: "Daily Mirror fires foreign editor," United Press International, October 29, 1991. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/10/29/Daily-Mirror-fires-foreign-editor/6711688712400/ ; Association of Mirror Pensioners, "Nick Davies," February 3, 2016. https://www.mirrorpensioners.co.uk/obituary/nick-davies/
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[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy.* Random House, 1991.
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[^3]: UK Parliament Early Day Motion 2134, "Mirror Group Newspapers and Israeli Intelligence," 1992. https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/2134/mirror-group-newspapers-and-israeli-intelligence
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[^4]: House of Commons, Early Day Motion 2134, "Mirror Group Newspapers and Israeli Intelligence," and Early Day Motion 2136, "Arms Sales," October 1991. https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/2136/arms-sales
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[^5]: United Press International, "Maxwell to seek injunction against book," London, October 23, 1991.
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[^6]: House of Commons, written answers, November 27, 1986, vol. 106, col. 299W, "Mr. Mordechai Vanunu."
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[^7]: "Hersh Wins Apology From British Papers," *The Washington Post,* August 19, 1994; "Writer wins damages, apology in libel suit," *Deseret News,* August 20, 1994.
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category: "Other"
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category: "JFK Assassination"
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tags:
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- HLHunt
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- ITT
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- Wackenhut
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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summary: "E. Howard Hunt was a CIA officer who ran psychological warfare for Operation PBSUCCESS (1954 Guatemala coup), served as political officer for the Bay of Pigs invasion, and was one of the Watergate burglars arrested in June 1972, serving 33 months in prison, and in his final years made statements implicating CIA figures in the Kennedy assassination."
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summary: "CIA officer who ran propaganda for the 1954 Guatemala coup and politics for the Bay of Pigs, headed covert action in the Domestic Operations Division, joined the Mullen Company, and was convicted in Watergate."
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born: 1918-10-09
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died: 2007-01-23
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location: "Washington, D.C."
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category: "Other"
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category: "JFK Assassination"
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tags:
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- Libel
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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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summary: "David Atlee Phillips was a CIA propaganda officer who ran La Voz de la Liberacion for the 1954 Guatemala coup, served as Chief of Cuban Operations at the CIA's Mexico City station during Lee Harvey Oswald's disputed September-October 1963 visit, and was identified in 2013 by Alpha 66 founder Antonio Veciana as the CIA officer 'Maurice Bishop' whom Veciana had seen with Oswald in Dallas two months before the Kennedy assassination - a claim Phillips denied under HSCA oath but that CIA officer Ron Crozier confirmed was a Phillips alias."
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summary: "CIA propaganda officer in the 1954 Guatemala coup, chief of Cuban operations in Mexico City during Oswald's 1963 visit, co-director of the 1970 Chile task force, and the man Antonio Veciana named as Maurice Bishop."
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born: 1922-10-31
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died: 1988-07-07
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location: "Washington, D.C."
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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
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category: "JFK Assassination"
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- Person
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- JosephOster
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- SundayMirror
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- SundayTimes
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- MargaretThatcher
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summary: "Vanunu began working as a technician at Dimona in August 1977 and spent much of the next eight years assigned to various tasks inside the reprocessing plant, formally known as Machon 2 and informally as the Tunnel."
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summary: "Technician at Israel's Dimona reprocessing plant from 1977 to 1985 who gave photographs of it to the Sunday Times, was lured from London to Rome by the Mossad in 1986, and served eighteen years."
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born: 1954-10-14
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location: "Marrakech, Morocco"
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updated: 2026-09-21
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