Report: Zygier botched top secret mission
YET more details have emerged about the tragic demise of Ben Zygier (pictured), the Australian family man-cum-Mossad agent, who committed suicide in Israel’s highest security prison in 2010.
YET more details have emerged about the tragic demise of Ben Zygier (pictured), the Australian family man-cum-Mossad agent, who committed suicide in Israel’s highest security prison in 2010.
According to ABC’s Foreign Correspondent, which outed Zygier as Israel’s infamous Prisoner X in February, the Bialik College graduate unwittingly thwarted a top secret Mossad mission to repatriate the remains of three soldiers killed during the First Lebanon War in 1982.
In March this year, a joint report from Der Spiegel in Germany and Fairfax media in Australia, claimed Zygier – in an attempt to curry favour with his bosses at Mossad – tried to turn a Hezbollah agent of his own volition. In trying to prove his bona fides, Zygier gave up the name Ziad al-Homsi, a Lebanese double agent working for Mossad. But Zygier was outfoxed by the Hezbollah agent and al-Homsi was arrested and sentenced to 15 years jail.
In a fresh report on Tuesday night, Foreign Correspondent revealed that al-Homsi had been helping Mossad to repatriate the remains of Yehuda Katz, Zvi Feldman and Zachary Baumel, who were missing in action. Israel has a strict policy of bringing its soldiers home, even if they are killed in action.
The report also revealed that Zygier, despite admitting he had tried to take his own life previously, was not on suicide watch in the supposedly suicide-proof cell. On the day of his death he received a visit from his wife that left him agitated and angry. Four hours later he hanged himself with a wet bed sheet in the bathroom of his cell. The CCTV camera in there was not working at the time.
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Ben Zygier.
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