The ambassador, John Gunther Dean,
writes that over the years he not only came under pressure from
pro-Israeli groups and officials in Washington but also was the target
of an Israeli-inspired assassination attempt in 1980 in Lebanon, where
he had opened links to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Dean's suspicions that Israeli agents may have also been involved in the
mysterious plane crash in 1988 that killed Pakistan's president, General
Mohammed Zia ul Haq, led finally to a decision in Washington to declare
him mentally unfit, which forced his resignation from the foreign
service after a thirty-year career.
American ambassador in Lebanon in August
1980 when a three-car convoy carrying him and his family was attacked
near
Beirut.
the
guns and ammunition used in the attack had been given by Israelis to a
Christian militia allied with them.
I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad
was somehow involved in the attack
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