Let’s take a step backwards first to http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jul/16/israel Mossad spies’ jailed over New Zealand passport fraud. This July 16th 2004 Guardian article opens with a blast: “The prime minister of New Zealand angrily denounced Israel and imposed diplomatic sanctions on it after two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for six months for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport.
The plot, which involved obtaining a passport in the name of a tetraplegic man who had not spoken in years, provoked a furious reaction yesterday.” That’s followed by a March 2005 Peace Researcher article, http://www.converge.org.nz/abc/pr32-123b.html Israel Apologizes to NZ For Bungled Mossad Passports. That reads “PR 30 (March 2005) ran a lengthy article entitled “Mossad Spies Imprisoned In New Zealand: Our Passports Valued For Use By Israeli Covert Killers. http://www.rense.com/general82/dzse.htm
Zygier ‘planned to expose deadly use of passports’
Philip Dorling
February 15, 2013
“Speaking to Lateline, former Fairfax correspondent Jason Koutsoukis recalls his conversations with Ben Zygier, the last of which was just weeks before he was imprisoned in Israel.
Mr Zygier “may well have been about to blow the whistle, but he never got the chance”, an Australian security official told Fairfax Media.”
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