Prof. Albert Sabin flatly denied today that he ever told an American television newsman that he had information that President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt did not die a natural death but was murdered by disaffected Army officers. Prof. Sabin, president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, admitted that he talked to American television journalists but claimed that what he told them differed from what was broadcast in his name. Dr. Sabin said he told the journalists that he knew of a group of Egyptian Army officers who were dissatisfied with the Soviet role in their country and thought the Russians should be more active in the war against Israel. He said he became aware of the group when he visited Egypt in 1968, before settling in Israel, and that its existence was confirmed by an Egyptian officer who deserted to Europe before Nasser died last year. Sabin admitted that this led him to the “assumption” that Nasser may have been murdered but he never stated it as a fact.
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