Bruce Brill

Bruce Brill ---Brief Biographical Sketch
Bruce’s story begins by his enlisting in the US Army in 1971. Trained as an Arabic interpreter, he was assigned to NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland. On the first day of the October 1973 Yom Kippur War, he had an epiphanic experience: while he and his NSA comrades knew of the planned Arab attack against Israel days in advance, he was astounded to hear the front-line Israeli soldiers were caught by total surprise. At that moment he became an “instant Zionist” and came to Israel upon his discharge from the Army in 1974.
General Eli Zeira was then-Head of Israeli Military Intelligence. In 2017 Zeira confided in Brill that the general had received an American intelligence assessment just prior to the attack, that the Arabs were NOT going to attack.
This false assessment resulted in Israel being caught with her pants down and losing over 2600 soldiers, most unnecessarily. General Dr. Yaakov Hisdai, an investigator of the post-Yom Kippur War Agranat Commission of Inquiry, asks:
How did this befall us? … To this very day we don’t have a clear answer.
Brill’s recently released book, “Deceit of an Ally,” finally gives answer to this question.