Israeli spy's passport sparks row

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Israeli spy's passport sparks row

Saturday January 1, 2005
The Guardian

The use of forged British passports by Mossad assassination squads triggered a Foreign Office protest.

But just as diplomats were about to call in the Israeli ambassador, it was discovered that civil servants elsewhere in Whitehall were in the process of renewing the UK passport held by a senior Israeli secret service agent.

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The realisation that Kimche was about to get a new passport astonished officials. "This is really extraordinary," one wrote. "At the same time as the minister is about to protest to the Israeli ambassador over the misuse of British passports for Israeli intelligence operations, we are apparently contemplating issuing a British passport to a man who may well have been in charge of the operation complained of."

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