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category: Authors & Journalists
summary: Iraqi Jewish researcher in New York and distant relative of Yaacov Nimrodi
  who leaked the Oliver North story to journalists.
tags:
- Person
- Journalist
---

[Rosie Nimrodi](/people/rosie-nimrodi/) was an Iraqi Jew working in [New York City](/places/new-york-city/) for the Council on Economic Priorities, a think tank. She was a distant relative of [Yaacov Nimrodi](/people/yaacov-nimrodi/).[^1]

[Nimrodi](/people/rosie-nimrodi/) had an affair with [Raji Samghabadi](/people/raji-samghabadi/), a *Time* magazine correspondent, and introduced him to [Ari Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/). She typed notes of the [North](/people/oliver-north/) story from [Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) and gave them to other journalists, including Stephen Engelberg of *The New York Times*.[^1]

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