A man identified by media as an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent and
found hanged in a Tel Aviv jail had passed secrets to Hezbollah before
his death, an influential German magazine reported Sunday.
News weekly Der Spiegel said Ben Zygier, a man known as “Prisoner X”
who died in 2010 in an allegedly suicide-proof cell, had handed tips to
the Lebanese militant group that led to the arrest of at least two
people spying for Israel.
After conducting its own “internal investigations”, the report found
that Zygier had started working for Mossad in 2003, investigating
European companies doing business with Iran and Syria.
It said Zygier — who was raised in Melbourne but moved to Israel
about a decade before his death — was ordered back to Israel in 2007
because his bosses were unhappy with his work.
In 2008 he took a leave of absence, Spiegel said, and returned to
Melbourne to finish his studies after trying to recruit new agents for
Israel in a bid to restore his standing with his bosses.
In the process he came in contact with Hezbollah supporters, Spiegel
said, and while trying to convince them to work for Mossad, disastrously
spilled highly sensitive information.
This included the names of Lebanese nationals Ziad al-Homsi and
Mustafa Ali Awadeh, who were arrested in May 2009 on charges of spying
for Israel and later sentenced to several years of hard labour.
The report said Israeli security authorities had told Zygier after
his arrest that they wanted to make an example of him and demanded a
prison sentence of at least 10 years.
Zygier was found dead in his cell in December 2010 at the age of 34.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/24/mossad-agent-hanged-self-in-suicide-proof-cell-after-passing-intel-to-hezbollah/
Monday 25 March 2013
Mossad agent hanged self in suicide-proof cell after passing intel to Hezbollah
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