(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, JULY 18 - The unauthorised biography of Arnon Milchan, a high-profile Hollywood film producer for more than 30 years, contains a shadow of arms trade and nuclear technology transfer to Israel. The books will come out by the end of this month and its content is potentially explosive. It tells the story of a successful entrepreneur in showbiz and other fields. But also of a spy of nuclear technology, paid - apparently - by the current President of Israel, Shimon Peres.
The book could certainly be used as the basis for one of the many box-office successes Milchan has made.
The allegations are in fact not new. But the evidence given in 'Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan', is new. The book was recently presented by Israeli publicists Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman in Los Angeles. The work will be in the US bookstores within around ten days. The information that has so far been released on the book by the New York Times, Haaretz and others is really interesting.
It is based on first-hand sources (including Peres) and some acknowledgements from Milchan himself, who was interviewed by the authors, as well as secret collaboration with Israel, though the country has refused to give its seal of approval to the work.
The book could certainly be used as the basis for one of the many box-office successes Milchan has made.
The allegations are in fact not new. But the evidence given in 'Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan', is new. The book was recently presented by Israeli publicists Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman in Los Angeles. The work will be in the US bookstores within around ten days. The information that has so far been released on the book by the New York Times, Haaretz and others is really interesting.
It is based on first-hand sources (including Peres) and some acknowledgements from Milchan himself, who was interviewed by the authors, as well as secret collaboration with Israel, though the country has refused to give its seal of approval to the work.
Milchan - 67 years old and producer of films like ''Once upon a time in America'' by Sergio Leone, ''War of the roses'', ''Pretty Woman'', ''L.A. Confidential''' and the more recent ''Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' (with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) or ''The fountain' (by Darren Aronofsy) - is described in the book as a person who leads a double life.
He is born in Israel and manages to make it in the USA as businessman, but stays in close contact with his fatherland. Doron and Gelman zoom in on the network created by the Hollywood magnate (a generous public supporter of the right-wing pro-Israeli Christian evangelical church) to help weapons and strategic technology move to the Jewish State.
They also focus on the operations managed directly by him for years, under cover of his companies. They even reveal the Milchan's militancy in Lakam: the intelligence agency that was created in Israel to contribute to the development of scientific programmes for national security, starting with the one that (never officially) turns out to have given Israel nuclear weapons.
The producer was recruited in Lakam - according to the book - by Peres in person, who confirmed this information to the writers. Milchan and Peres have been friends from the time when Peres - as high official and later young Defence Minister - in the '60s became the man behind the Israeli nuclear bomb.
In the '80s Milchan he escaped an FBI investigation into illegal nuclear exports for double use (medical and military), in which the managing director of one of his companies in California was sentenced to prison. Arnon Milchan has never denied to Doron and Gelman that he has helped Israel in these ways over the past decades. He has kept the details to himself, but was clear about one point: that he has rendered a service out of patriotism, for the ''good of the'' Zionist State. And without making any money from this kind of 'business'.
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