Explanation From Original OP:

A US diplomat with a long and distinguished career before becoming ambassador to Lebanon, John Gunther Dean narrowly escaped assassination by the "Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners (FLLF)." Dean's suspicions that the group was a front for Israeli intelligence were dismissed at the time.

In 2018, the book Rise and Kill First by the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman confirmed Dean's suspicions. From the book:

In 1979, Rafael Eitan and Meir Dagan (both IDF commanders) created the FLLF, and ran that fictitious group from 1979 to 1983.

And we Americans thank Israel for it, and ask for another, please, sir, every fucking time.