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category: Private Organization
summary: Esquire is an American magazine whose October 1991 article by Craig Unger
  repeated Ari Ben-Menashe's allegations that Robert McFarlane was recruited by Rafi
  Eitan and identified McFarlane as 'Mr. X' in the Jonathan Pollard case.
tags:
- Organization
- Media
- USA
---

*[Esquire](/organizations/esquire/)* is an [American](/places/united-states/) magazine. In October 1991, it published an article by [Craig Unger](/people/craig-unger/) that repeated [Ben-Menashe's](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) allegations that [Robert McFarlane](/people/robert-mcfarlane/) had been recruited by [Rafi](/organizations/rafi/) and named [McFarlane](/people/robert-mcfarlane/) as "Mr. X" in the [Jonathan Pollard](/people/jonathan-pollard/) case. [McFarlane](/people/robert-mcfarlane/) subsequently sued the magazine, but the suit was dismissed in June 1994.[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.