ISRAEL COURT UNVEILS CASE OF CAIRO SPY

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400430032-9
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RIPPUB
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1
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November 11, 2016
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February 4, 1999
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32
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March 23, 1964
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Sanitized - Approved For Releas 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. FOIAb3b Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000400430032-9