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Another mysterious spy death in London

BigNewsNetwork.com Friday 29th June, 2007

A man who once reportedly spied for Israel has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in London.

Ashraf Marwan, 63, the billionaire son-in-law of former Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, fell from his fifth-floor apartment .

Marwan, was alleged to have acted as a secret agent for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.

According to The Times newspaper of London, Marwan offered his services to Israel in 1969 and, in the ensuing years, provided information on Egypt and the Arab world that senior Israeli ministers would describe as priceless.

But several Israeli newspapers claimed he was a double agent.

Major General Eli Zeira, chief of Israeli's military intelligence at the time of the Yom Kippur war in 1973, was one of those who considered Marwan a double agent who had misled the Israeli services.

London's Metropolitan Police have so far declined to identify the dead man, but a spokesman for Coroner’s Court has confirmed an inquest will be held into a man called Ashraf Marwan.
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