---
category: "Other"
tags:
  - Person
  - Journalist
summary: "Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists."
---

[[Rosie Nimrodi]] was an Iraqi Jew working in [[New York City]] for the Council on Economic Priorities, a think tank. She was a distant relative of [[Yaacov Nimrodi]].[^1]

[[Rosie Nimrodi|Nimrodi]] had an affair with [[Raji Samghabadi]], a *Time* magazine correspondent, and introduced him to [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]. She typed notes of the [[Oliver North|North]] story from [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] and gave them to other journalists, including [[Stephen Engelberg]] of *[[The New York Times]]*.[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).