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March 21, 2000
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An Israeli agent caught in a bungled 1998 spying operation will go on trial in Switzerland in July, according to Swiss officials. The agent, identified by the court as Isaac Bental, was one of five Mossad agents caught trying to install bugging equipment in an apartment building in a Bern suburb. The others were released after questioning by police.

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