A Swiss federal judge is recommending that an agent of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service be tried for illegal acts on behalf of a foreign state. The agent was one of five arrested in February 1998 after a bungled Mossad attempt to wiretap the Bern apartment of a Lebanese man alleged to have links to Hezbollah.
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