The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power »

Minnesota-born Dick Hill is a five star author who has earned numerous creative and marketing awards. His books include Battle Talk!, a Five Star Winner. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Hill survived a 35 year advertising career, including 12 years with Campbell Mithun. He is president of Dick Hill Advertising and lives with his wife, Mary, in Edina, Minnesota.

Israel's top investigative reporter chronicles the clandestine counter-jihad that the CIA and the Mossad have been fighting against Iran and its terrorist proxy, Hizbollah, revealing the shocking extent of Iran's support for terrorism and the infiltration of Iranian-sponsored terrorists into the United States.

Publishers Weekly

Drawing on an astonishing amount of research, Israeli journalist Bergman describes in fascinating detail the three-decade "intelligence struggle" between Iran and the West. It is a grim history dominated by "a series of failures," including the rise of Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran's alliance with Syria and the regime's success in shielding its nuclear program from international scrutiny. Despite some recent Iranian setbacks-e.g., the 2007 Israeli "Ghost Raid" against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor-Bergman concludes that Middle Eastern skies "have not looked so gloomy for a long time." Among the revelations certain to resonate in the U.S. is Bergman's contention that a secret file exists that "proves unequivocally that George H.W. Bush surely knew about all the illegal goings-on" in the Iran-Contra scandal-something Bush has always denied. Bergman stops short of recommending a course of action, but he makes a convincing case that Iran is not only a terrorist state but also the "greatest security challenge the U.S. is facing." Thoroughly researched and persuasively argued, Bergman's brief against Iran adds a powerful voice to a contentious debate. (Sept.)

Preface

PART I
GREEN STORM RISING

1. The Twilight of the Iranian Monarchy
2. Death to the Infidels
3. Operation Seashell: How Israel Secretly Armed Iran

PART II
THE HIDDEN WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST

4. Dangerous Games: The Lebanon War and the Birth of Hizballah
5. The Poor Man's Smart Bomb: The Reinvention of Suicide Bombing
6. The Drugged Octopus and the Rise of Hizballah
7. The Meat Market: How Iran and Hizballah Perfected the Art of Hostage Taking
8. The Hungarian Octagon: The Hidden Side of Iran-Contra

PART III
THE GLOBAL WAR

9. Assassins
10. Operation Body Heat
11. Terror in Buenos Aires
12. Exporting Terror
13. Target: The Great Satan
14. The al-Qaeda Connection

PART IV
THE SECOND COMING OF HIZBALLAH

15. A Divine Victory: Hizballah Takes Lebanon
16. Hizballah Prepares
17. Oil on the Flames

PART V
THE FIRST SHI'ITE BOMB

18. The Termite File: How an Israeli Arms Dealer Gave Iran a Chemical Arsenal
19. Importing a Russian Bomb?
20. The Countdown
21. Ghost Raid
22. The Second Lebanon War

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Bibliography and a Note on Sources
Index