Israel’s deputy defense minister rejected reported claims by former Mossad agents that Israel gave no backing to an agent on trial in Switzerland for a bungled phone-tapping operation. “There is no problem of political backing for the Mossad,” Ephraim Sneh told Israel Radio.
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