World-Renowned Journalist Joins AFP’s Team

 

Celebrated journalist and writer Gordon Thomas has signed on to help American Free Press continue putting out the provocative and truthful news readers have become accustomed to reading every week.

 

By the Staff of American Free Press

 

Famed and highly respected international best-selling author and journalist Gordon Thomas has agreed to serve as a contributing editor to American Free Press (AFP).

“We’re delighted to have Gordon aboard,” said AFP editor Christopher Petherick. “He’s a distinguished name whose accomplishments are equaled by few writers today.”

Thomas’s name is familiar to anyone who has spent time in any bookstore or library during the last 30 years. Based in Ireland, the Welsh-born wordsmith is the author of 53 books with total sales of more than 45 million copies. Several of his more recent volumes, including Seeds of Fire, Gideon’s Spies, and Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Super Spy have been favorite reading for subscribers to American Free Press.

An experienced correspondent who has traveled widely and whose coverage included the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the Tiananmen Square tragedy in China in 1989, Thomas was the featured speaker at the gala banquet held during the Fourth International Conference on Real News, Authentic History and the First Amendment jointly sponsored by AFP and The Barnes Review, the bimonthly historical journal.

Thomas has also reported from—among many places—Korea, Vietnam, Algeria, Cyprus, Iran and Iraq, including a rare interview with Saddam Hussein prior to the first American venture in the Persian Gulf.

A commentator for TV-3 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, Thomas’s newspaper columns are featured regularly in major independent and syndicated newspapers throughout Europe. Over the years Thomas has won two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence.

His non-fiction writings range from the history of intelligence to religion and health. He has also written numerous novels, several of which are now being adapted for a television broadcast series in Britain.

Seven of his books have been made into major motion pictures, including Voyage of the Damned (nominated for five Academy Awards) and Enola Gay, which won the Emmy Awards Foreign Critics Prize. He won the Juries and Critics Prize at the Monte Carlo Film Festival. Thomas also won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Ship wreck, co-written with his frequent collaborator, Max Morgan Witts.

Through his father-in-law, who was a professional intelligence officer who worked for Britain’s MI5, Thomas had entrée to many in the global intelligence community. And because of his worldwide reputation, leaders of Israel’s Mossad agreed to cooperate with Thomas in his ground-breaking study of the Mossad, Gideon’s Spies.

Many supporters of Israel attacked Thomas for even having dared write the revealing book, despite the fact that the Mossad cooperated with Thomas in the book’s production.

Thomas and his wife, an interior designer, have four grown children who work in various sections of the entertainment industry. His web site can be found at: gordonthomas.ie.