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Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon- Arnon Milchan

av Meir Doron

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Arnon Milchan has led an extraordinary life. The kind of life one would read about in a John Le Carre spy novel or in a movie made by Hollywood colleagues Steven Spielberg or Oliver Stone. This is the story of a secret agent, of nuclear proliferation, billion-dollar high-tech defence transactions, ideology, patriotism, love, heartbreak, and the awe-inspiring Hollywood career of a mysterious mogul. In a true story that puts James Bond to shame, Confidential details with nail-biting suspense how producer Arnon Milchan evolved from his youth into one of the most important covert agents that Israeli intelligence has ever fielded. From Iran to South Africa, from Poland to Taiwan and the US, Confidential casts a global net to expose the legendary producer of blockbusters like Pretty Woman, L A Confidential, and Mr and Mrs Smith. Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman methodically unveil Arnon Milchan's role as a key player in many of Israel's most important intelligence operations. Confidential is packed with stunning new revelations and opens a window into the world of a real covert operative, who evolved into a genuine member of Hollywood's royal elite.… (mer)
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Always excited to read anything that has to do with Israel, I was happy to receive this book. I was not disappointed. Although a biography, the book read like a spy novel interspersed with family photos. Arnon Milchan, famous for many of the movies I've seen over the years, is also very involved with confidential Israeli military operations. It was fascinating to read about his involvement with different aspects of Israeli news that I've read throughout the years and realize the connection that this Hollywood tycoon had made.

I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in Israel and/or spy stories. The other thing I really appreciated about this book is that the book was written without the knowledge of Milchan but then sent to him and then was able to get feedback from him to incorporate.
  chutzpanit | Apr 6, 2012 |
I had to keep reminding myself as I read this book that it was not a novel but the life story of Arnon Milchan, a key player in many of Israel's most important intelligence operations.
Authors Doron and Gelman methodically take the reader from Milchan's youth to his covert operations as a secret agent, but do not end the biography there. They then take readers on a whirlwind trip through his career as a movie producer of such hits as "Pretty Woman", L.A. Confidential", and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". If a reader prefers a book to include secret operations, mystery, high-tech defense transactions, ideology, patriotism, love, heartbreak and Hollywood's royal elite, Doron and Gelman have delivered.
Personally, I came away from this biography knowing Mr. Milchan better, but liking him less. I'm grateful for all he has done for Israel, but possibly because of the current world economic woes, not of his tycoon-like life style and accumulation of such wealth. In the back of my mind was always the question, "who did he step on as he climbed his way to the top?" and what would they say in a review of Arnon Milchen's life? ( )
  bakersfieldbarbara | Sep 22, 2011 |
Few people realize that the famed Hollywood producer of over 110 films such as Pretty Woman, Free Willey, Once Upon a Time in America, JFK, Natural Born Killers, LA Confidential, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Marley and Me, and Knight and Day, was an Israeli master spy. Shimon Peres, President of Israel, wrote that his activities handed Israel a great strategic, technological, and diplomatic advantage. Doron and Gelman’s book calls him “a superagent in the real-world sense, and the closest thing to a real-life James Bond that one could imagine.”

The authors reveal the true story of this significant undercover agent, a man who had a key role in securing successes in many of Israel’s important intelligence operations. He helped supply Israel with its defense needs and in creating its ultimate deterrence capabilities. He secured important weapons and supplies for Israel that could not be obtained through regular channels because of the Arab boycott. As he explained to his mother, who feared for him, “I’m doing this to help our country survive.” As a sideline, he also made himself into a billionaire. At the height of his activities, he controlled over thirty companies in seventeen countries and said, “I gave Israel free rein to use my companies to help in the defense and survival of my country.”

Milchan, now 66 years old, was born with feelings of impatience, impulsiveness, an ability to keep secrets, and affinity for danger. As he said, “There is something in me that wants to or needs to do scary things. I need a dose of danger to breathe.”

Among a multitude of other acquisitions, Milchan obtained many of the ingredients necessary for Israel to build atomic bombs. He secured the HAWK missiles and helicopters for Israel. He brokered a billion dollar deal with the US firm Rockwell that assisted Israel, Iran, and the US.

Besides telling the amazing exploits of Arnon Milchan, the authors also reveal significant information about Israel, the United States, Iran, and other countries. For example: Israel is the fifth or sixth country in the world in the number of atomic weapons in its possession. It can produce a nuclear bomb every two and a half weeks. When in 1973, Israel was almost defeated by the Egyptians, Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel told President Richard Nixon that Israel may have to use its atomic weapons against Egypt if Egyptian forces continued to advance. Nixon told Russia and Egypt and Egypt stopped advancing. Nixon also began to send Israel a large number of weapons so that it could defend itself, against the advice of the Jew Henry Kissinger. “Over fifteen hundred South Africans (mostly Jews) rushed as volunteers to fight for Israel, and the Pretoria government permitted over $30 million in aid to be sent to Israel.”

The authors also tell that Israel had a secret agency called LAKAM devoted to securing weapons, illegally if necessary, since Israel needed them to survive. They reveal some but not much information about Jonathan Pollard, the American who spied on his country for Israel. They tell about Richard Kelly Smyth, who also helped Israel, who was arrested in 2001 and released in 2005, but Pollard is still in jail. Yet despite “US righteous indignation of Israeli spying on the United States, the US has continued to spy on Israel.” The authors were unable to find out if Arnon Milchan is still working for Israel. ( )
  iddrazin | Aug 28, 2011 |
This is a book about a very interesting man. He's involved in arms deals and an important Hollywood producer. But... I wonder how much we can trust the narrative of this book. When I first received it I went straight to the photograghs and immediately found a mistake. It shows a picture from the filming of The Kings of Comedy. The people listed are Robert Deniro, Arnon Milchan, Martin Scorsese and finally Diahanne Abbott. Problem is this is not Diahanne Abbott, this is obviously Sandra Bernhard. What in the universe? Didn't an editor even go through this book? I'm just a regular dope. I don't know anything special about actors or Hollywood, but I can recognize Sandra Bernhard! If I were an author, I would check and recheck every detail of my book. It makes me wonder what other whoppers are in here. I feel bad to write those things because I'm sure the writers have worked very hard but maybe they should have done a bit more fact checking in order to correct such a simple mistake. It colored the rest of the book for me. Still, it is an amazing story. ( )
  drmarymccormack | Aug 25, 2011 |
Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon- Arnon Milchan is an eye-opening biography of a man who basically is the reason for such movie classics as L.A. Confidential and Pretty Woman but is also a key part in the defense of Israel basically from its inception. While introducing the reader to Arnon Milchan, the authors Meir Doran and Joseph Gelman are also introducing you to the relations between the United States and Israel. They successfully juxtapose the espionage and wheeling and dealing of Milchan with work in the U.S. in getting needed weapons for Israel's defense with the wheeling and dealing of getting movies off the ground and keeping studios, directors, etc. happy. I think the title would have been better served with Secret Agent and Hollywood Tycoon. The book does get a little dry in its delivery with its technical aspects but then with non-fiction, it doesn't work too well to skip over such things. All in all, I think it's a good reference to Israel and United States relations, the defense of Israel, and can be a good conversation starter on nuclear weapons and the technology.
  jeshakespeare | Aug 22, 2011 |
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...“Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan,” written by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman, and set for publication on July 30 by Gefen Books, now holds that Mr. Milchan — whose credits include “Love and Other Drugs” and “Knight and Day” — at least through the mid-1980s was a full-fledged operative for Israel’s top-secret intelligence agency, Lakam. (The acronym is from the Hebrew for the blandly named Science Liaison Bureau.) ...
In that capacity, according to the book, Mr. Milchan supervised government-backed accounts and front companies that financed “the special needs of the entirety of Israel’s intelligence operations outside the country.”...
The “special needs” serviced by Mr. Milchan, who is now 66 years old, included buying components to build and maintain Israel’s nuclear arsenal...
 
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Arnon Milchan has led an extraordinary life. The kind of life one would read about in a John Le Carre spy novel or in a movie made by Hollywood colleagues Steven Spielberg or Oliver Stone. This is the story of a secret agent, of nuclear proliferation, billion-dollar high-tech defence transactions, ideology, patriotism, love, heartbreak, and the awe-inspiring Hollywood career of a mysterious mogul. In a true story that puts James Bond to shame, Confidential details with nail-biting suspense how producer Arnon Milchan evolved from his youth into one of the most important covert agents that Israeli intelligence has ever fielded. From Iran to South Africa, from Poland to Taiwan and the US, Confidential casts a global net to expose the legendary producer of blockbusters like Pretty Woman, L A Confidential, and Mr and Mrs Smith. Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman methodically unveil Arnon Milchan's role as a key player in many of Israel's most important intelligence operations. Confidential is packed with stunning new revelations and opens a window into the world of a real covert operative, who evolved into a genuine member of Hollywood's royal elite.

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