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updated: 2026-10-12
category: "Authors & Journalists"
tags:
  - Person
  - Journalist
  - Author
summary: "In July 1992 The Village Voice printed an article by Unger quoting Moshe Hebroni, a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, on Ben-Menashe's access to sensitive material in External Relations."
born: 1949-03-25
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[[Craig Unger]] is an [[United States|American]] journalist and author. In October 1991, his article in [[Esquire]] magazine repeated [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]] allegations that [[Robert McFarlane]] had been recruited by [[Rafael Eitan|Rafi]] and named McFarlane as "Mr. X" in the [[Jonathan Pollard]] case. McFarlane sued the magazine. The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the judgment for Esquire on January 30, 1996. The judgment rested on a finding of no actual malice and on the dismissal of the claim against Unger for want of personal jurisdiction.[^1]

In July 1992, *The Village Voice* printed a long article by Unger that quoted [[Moshe Hebroni]], a former colleague of Ben-Menashe, confirming Ben-Menashe's access to very sensitive material while working for the Foreign Flow desk in External Relations.[^2]

### Footnotes

[^1]: *McFarlane v. Esquire Magazine*, 74 F.3d 1296 (D.C. Cir. 1996), No. 94-7137, decided January 30, 1996. https://static.case.law/f3d/74/cases/1296-01.json
[^2]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).