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category: "Iran-Contra"
tags:
  - Person
  - IranContra
  - Israel
summary: "Middle East correspondent for Newsday who received early details of the Iran-Contra story from Ari Ben-Menashe."
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[[Timothy Phelps]] was the [[Middle East]] correspondent for *Newsday*, based in [[Cairo]]. He visited [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] several times in [[Jerusalem]], where [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] provided him with details about the [[Oliver North|North]] story, which later became known as the [[Iran-Contra Affair]]. However, *Newsday* did not print the story.[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.