ISRAEL COURT UNVEILS CASE OF CAIRO SPY
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400430032-9
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November 11, 2016
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February 4, 1999
Sequence Number:
32
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Publication Date:
March 23, 1964
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N4W YORK POST
CPYRGHT
Tel Aviv, March 23 (Reuters)
_111 L11 e 1777-77
spies and counter-agents raging
in the shadows of the perennial
Arab-Israel conflict the case of a
,i man called "Zaki" is outstand-
ing.
A Cairo-born .fir m e n i a n
photographer was transformed
into an ordinary inconspicuous'
Jewish resident of Israel. The
young man working for Egyp-
tian intelligence became a."Jew-
ish immigrant from Brazil."
He lived In a Kibbutz, served
in the Israeli army and sett'ed
I in a suburb of Ashkelon where
not even his most intimate
friends suspected anything.
An Israeli court recently. sen-
tenced 26-year-old Kvurlc Yacob.
tan to 18 years in prison. Pie had. Took Course in Judaism
nearly two years under the alias
of Yitzhak (Zaki) Kutcliuk. _ Ile was given the name of
"Zaki" pleaded guilty to eight Y,tzhak (Zaki) Kutchuk. His
counts of espionage. P21'('11ts became a non-existing
family of Jews from Turkey.
New. Personality All the necessary documents
ifere ryas a case of the care- were provided. He was given a
ful building up of a new "pe.r? course in Judaism, Jewish cus.
sonality" down to the smallest ,tone, and traditions. He under-
detail, the "planting" 'of a lone ,went circumcision, and assoclat-
agent, the planning for a long- ed under lils new identity with
term project. 1 Cairo Jews.
At his trial, the prosecutor As a stateless person of Jew-
said Yacobian at 20 became the ish parentage "Zaki" obtained
provider for his family in Cairo immigration papers for Brazil.
when his father died. ~ There, lie contacted an agent of
In 1959 Yacobian agreed to he- the Egyptian intelligence.
come and undercover agent in. He posed as a Jew and asso-
Israel. I ciated with members of the lo-
Ile got a salary, a promise that cal Jewish community.
all his debts would be paid and When he applied for immigra-
that his mother, who needed ex- Lion papers to Israel, they were
pensive m e d i c a l treatment, readily granted.
would be taken care of. Yacob- In Israel, being of military'
tan signed up for three years. age, he was soon recruited into
Then came rlotallM espionage ! the Army where he served a
courses, facts and Information year.
about life in Israel as well Only a day or two before his
how to dodge "shadows," kiow to arrest, "Zaki" applied to the De
pass on his information and fense Ministry for a job as a
other trade secrets. photographer.
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