Israeli police uncovered a classified document linked to the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s in the office of a private detective allegedly linked to a murder conspiracy. Investigators refused to divulge the contents of the “top-secret” document, but they questioned how it came to be in the possession of the detective, Oded Ben-Dov, whom police are probing as part of their investigation of former Ma’ariv publisher Ofer Nimrodi.
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