Switzerland and Israel reportedly wanted to hold negotiations to free the Mossad agent recently arrested by Swiss officials without publicity. But leaks about the bungled Mossad operation were apparently made to the Israeli media by Mossad officials seeking to ensure the resignation of the agency’s head, Danny Yatom. Yatom resigned just as the leaks surfaced, after he came under fire from a government-appointed commission for another failed Mossad operation last September in Jordan.
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