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- GRAPEVINE, Page 33WILL GATES BE GIVEN THE GATE?
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Questions about ROBERT GATES resurfaced on the eve of the
- Senate vote this week on his confirmation as head of the CIA.
- At issue: former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe's
- claim that Gates planned illegal arms shipments to Iraq with him
- in the mid-1980s. Gates convincingly disputed the charges
- during the Senate hearings. The Senate Intelligence Committee
- concluded after lengthy investigation that no "credible
- evidence" supported the allegations. But Ben-Menashe's
- credibility gauge took a jump when investigative journalist
- Seymour Hersh, in his new book, The Samson Option, named
- Ben-Menashe as a source for his charge that Nicholas Davies,
- foreign editor of London's Daily Mirror, was an Israeli agent.
- Davies denied a meeting described by Ben-Menashe, but was fired
- last week after the Israeli produced a witness and a photo. U.S.
- investigators are now re-examining Ben-Menashe's assertions
- regarding Gates.
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