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Baruch Weiss was an Assistant USA Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the prosecutor in the trial of Ari Ben-Menashe and Richard St. Francis for conspiracy to sell C-130 aircraft to Iran.1
Baruch Weiss initially classified Ari Ben-Menashe as dangerous, but later admitted it was a mistake. He signed an agreement with Ari Ben-Menashe to talk without a lawyer present, granting him immunity for the conversations. Baruch Weiss insisted that Ari Ben-Menashe was a low-level translator acting for personal profit, but the taped conversations and Ari Ben-Menashe employment records, including letters of recommendation, contradicted this claim.1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War") ↩︎