ARI BEN-MENASHE
Variously described as "our Ollie North"  by Israeli officials and "an unreliable, exaggerating, damnable peon translator", Ben Menashe was an ex-Israeli intelligence officer who claimed to have brokered a deal between Ronald Reagan and the Iranian government to hold onto US hostages to fit in with Reagan's election campaign. Also broke the story.
Source: The Giant Book of Conspiracies by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen

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