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category: "Military"
tags:
  - Person
  - IranContra
  - Israel
  - Military
summary: "Brigadier General Uri Simchoni was, according to Ari Ben-Menashe, a member of the Iran-Israel Joint Committee."
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Brigadier General [[Uri Simchoni]] was, according to [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], a member of the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]]. He served at various times as assistant deputy chief of staff for operations for the [[Israel]] and as a military attaché in [[Washington, D.C.]]. He had also been the chief of the elite [[Golani infantry brigade|Golani infantry brigade]].[^1]

Simchoni was part of the Israeli delegation at the October 1980 [[Paris Summit Meeting]], which included [[George H.W. Bush]], [[William J. Casey]], and [[Mehdi Karrubi]].[^1]

### Footnotes

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