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Middle East correspondent for Newsday who received early details of the Iran-Contra story from Ari Ben-Menashe.

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 provided him with details about the Oliver North story, which later became known as the Iran-Contra Affair. However, Newsday did not print the story.1

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  1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎