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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14961)	10/16/1999 10:04:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Hello Gustave, I have not had the time to delve into your Denard/Tavernier/Mossad scenario yet, but I came across this review of a book entitled Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas. An excerpt: "...until I began to realize that Mr. Thomas has written not a "Secret History" but a postmodern masterpiece of black humor. Everything falls into place if we read Gideon's Spies as a fiction by Thomas Pynchon or a movie by the Coen brothers. If as a history Thomas' narrative waffles between celebration of past coups and recitals of contemporary gaffes, as an absurdist neo-noir the spectacle is nevertheless engrossing." Another: "I have derived from it (the book) two conclusions, though I am not sure they are the ones the author intended to convey. The first leads me to redouble my skepticism concerning our sources of news, or even of facts; the second strengthens my convictions that neither the Israeli nor the American people has been well served by its government - those politicians, elected by bluster and lies, who preempt the concept of nation and put themselves on television waving flags and making with the pieties. ..." Take care, Charles