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New Zealand Herald


Auckland, NZ, [Führergeburtstag], April 20, 2004

Mossad's bungling overseas

By Stuart Dye

MOSSAD enjoys [sic. enjoyed] a high reputation among world intelligence communities but has become notorious for falsifying foreign nations' passports and for botched undercover operations abroad.

Moossad agentsMost recently, two Israelis were sentenced to three years' jail after pleading guilty to approaching a prohibited military area in Cyprus.

Udi Hargov and Igal Damary were spotted loitering in an area where a secret shipment of Army equipment was being unloaded - a shipment about which only the National Guard hierarchy knew.

The men were arrested at a fishing village on the southern coast. At their seaside apartment detectives found radio transmitters tuned in to police frequencies.

The men said they were part of a crack anti-terrorist unit to prevent an act of terror against Israel.

They denied spying on Cyprus on behalf of Turkey, but refused to say what the mission was.

However, it is believed to have been a bungled Mossad operation, possibly related to anti-aircraft missiles the Greek-Cypriot Government was planning to deploy on the island.

There were other embarrassments only months earlier. A self-confessed Israeli spy was given a one-year suspended prison sentence by a Swiss court for his part in a bungled wire-tapping operation.

Issac BentalThe spy, known only by his pseudonym Issac Bental, (right, shielded by policeman) was also barred from entering Switzerland for five years for what sentencing judge Hans Wipraechtiger called a "callous violation of Swiss sovereignty".

Bental's target was a Swiss citizen of Lebanese origin, who Mossad thought had links with Hizbollah Islamic extremists.

In March 1999 a retired agent was convicted of faking reports suggesting Syria was about to attack Israel.

A year earlier, two Mossad agents posing as Canadian tourists were captured in Amman after attacking a Hamas leader, Khalid Mashal, with a high-tech device intended to poison him. Mashal's life was saved after he was treated with an antidote demanded of the Israelis by a furious King Hussein.

A deal was reached to spare the agents from trial in Jordan by exchanging them for Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, imprisoned in Israel [Website note: Who has now -- end of April 2004 -- been murdered by Israeli airborne assassins].

But the diplomatic fall-out resulted in Canada withdrawing its ambassador in Israel in protest at the use of its passports for espionage.

Since that incident Canadian passports have been off limits, say Mossad sources.

 

Ottawa investigating: Mossad has history of using counterfeit Canadian documents
2002: Fury at Mossad's continued use of Canadian Passports in Murder Operation
Sept 6, 1999: Probe of Mossad's use of Canadian ID halted
1998: Israeli secret service still using Canadian passports
Ottawa investigating: Mossad has history of using counterfeit Canadian documents

 

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NZ Passport System Under Threat 17/04/2004 08:10 PM The NZ passport system is under threat after two Israeli's were arrested for trying to obtain a false NZ passport.
NZ Passport System Under Threat The NZ passport system is under threat after two Israeli's were arrested for trying to obtain a false NZ passport.
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