"Mossad Chief Lured Like a Fool"... Israeli Investigation Reveals Ashraf Marwan's Deception

SadaNews - The Hebrew newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" published an extensive investigation in its weekly supplement, revealing that Ashraf Marwan, the son-in-law of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was not the "legendary spy" that Israel has long considered him, but rather the spearhead of a well-crafted Egyptian deception plan.

The newspaper stated that "previously undisclosed intelligence materials" revealed that Marwan was the key player in the Egyptian plan aimed at misleading the Israeli intelligence service before and during the October War (1973).

Marwan was referred to as the "Angel" in Israel and is still regarded as one of its most significant human sources, having begun passing on large amounts of confidential documents and information about Egypt since 1970. His name is associated with the famous warning he conveyed to the head of the Mossad, Tsvi Zamir, on the eve of the war.

While Israel has repeatedly rejected previous hypotheses that he was a double agent, the new data revealed in the investigation has strongly revived this hypothesis.

The investigation states that Marwan participated in high-level meetings in late August 1973 between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, during which a military plan was agreed upon and the date for the attack on October 6 was determined. However, instead of relaying this critical information to his handlers in the Mossad, Marwan provided a series of misleading alerts about different dates, accompanied by assessments that "the war is unlikely to break out."

The warning he sent on the eve of the attack was described in the investigation as "vague and late."

The newspaper added that these details, along with unprecedented data, led General Shlomo Gazit, a former head of military intelligence, to state in a testimony that could only be published posthumously: "Marwan was planted deep within Israeli intelligence, luring Mossad Chief Zamir like a fool, and manipulated him as he wished. He was the central gear in the Egyptian deception plan."

In contrast, the Mossad rejected the findings of the investigation, describing them as "baseless claims and a distortion of historical reality."