A court in Cyprus charged two Israelis with spying for a foreign country and possessing banned recording equipment. Officials in Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency were said to be surprised by the decision to press charges after Israel had made clear to Cyprus through a number of channels that the two men had not been spying on Cyprus or gathering information on behalf of another country.
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