The US's biggest intelligence asset in the 1970's was....

The Wikileaks cables released this week covering Henry Kissinger's tenure at the State Department show a somewhat surprising figure who was one of the United States' biggest intelligence assets in the 1970's: Yasser Arafat.


During the Kissinger years, what mattered
most in the Middle East to the United States was the Persian Gulf,
because of its vast energy resources. The eastern