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Top Lebanese ex-officer admits to spying for Israel
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel News, Lebanon
Lebanese media outlets are reporting on Tuesday that a retired senior
officer in the Lebanese defense apparatus has acknowledged to authorities that
he collaborated with Israeli intelligence services for a period of over ten
years.
The Beirut-based Arab language newspapers Al-Akhbar and A-Safir are
reporting that the officer, who goes by the code name "Adib", is suspected of
heading a spy ring that passed along information to Israeli intelligence. The
reports said that Adib's wife has also been arrested.
Adib told interrogators that his job was limited solely to providing
information, and that he played no operational role in targeted killings or
explosions, according to the reports
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