BERGMAN, Ronen << back to list Ronen Bergman, a leading authority on Middle East intelligence, is one of the most highly regarded investigative journalists in the Israeli press. The author of two best sellers, he has just completed his PhD, the first thesis to be written about the Mossad, at Cambridge University. Bergman is a member of the new Project for Security Studies at Cambridge, and a lecturer in various forums. Web site http://www.thesecretwarwithiran.com/ Bibliography & Foreign sales THE SECRET WAR WITH IRAN (Current Affairs) For 27 years, the Israeli Mossad, together with the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations, conducted a covert war on Iran and its proxies. This campaign reflects a thorough view on the Iranian role in the international world of terrorism, the export of the Iranian Islamic revolution and Iran’s attempts to acquire nuclear capability. The Western intelligence effort to contain the Iranian threat has for the most part, failed. The Mossad, considered to be one of the most successful intelligence services in the world, faced a shrewd enemy and could not prevail. Rights sold to: USA, The Free Press; UK, Oneworld Publisher; Israel, Kinneret Zmora Bitan Reviews ”Bergman has amazing access and sources inside the Israeli intelligence and military communities. There is much to learn from his reporting”. Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize Winner and regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine ”…An enthralling read” The Economist ”Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Bergman’s brief against Iran adds a powerful voice to a contentious debate”. Publishers Weekly ”Some of the revelations here are startling and many of Bergman’s assertions seem credible”. Booklist ”Bergman documents convincingly and with a fair amount of balance Iran’s backing of terrorist fronts…Readers will find this a reasoned and perspicacious overview of the Western failure to recognize the Iranian threat”. Kirkus Reviews