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Danger Zone: Spy Agencies and Journalists

It's upsetting that Mossad is still celebrating Sylvia Rafael's cover as a journalist

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Back in 1978, I was sitting at the bar of the Commodore Hotel in Beirut, the storied safe haven for journalists and diplomats during the Lebanese civil war,  when a low-level Palestinian official named Anis sidled up to me and asked if I was “from Israel.”

At the time, I was the Middle East correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, based in Jerusalem.  

“I’m…

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