After attempting to access the NY Times article many times, and trying every Google possibility, there does not seem to be such an article by this particular journalist. The information sounds suspect to me.  Meanwhile, I don't see why this Legionnaire (who goes by the name of Dr. Professor Tell) is less reliable than many of the crappy sources Wikipedia is so reliant on (from Ilan Pappe and PalestineRemembered to those tearjerking "eyewitness" reports of people who were 7 months old in 1948). I will try to find a "better" source, but in the meantime, this one is at least verifiable.