The Spy Who Fell to Earth (Mysterious Death Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] [Music] thank you please hello can you call me thank you [Music] it's around one o'clock ash off marwan an egyptian super spy fell off the balcony [Music] in carlton terrace central london the medics were directed to a small rose garden he uttered a few words and he died when i was told my mind was racing i asked myself was he pushed did he jump the rumor was especially in egypt that it was not an accident it was a murder 1948 in palestine jews declared state of israel on the next day egypt and arab neighbors invaded so for years israel and egypt hated each other [Music] and ash of mawan was one of the greatest modern spies at the center of the conflict [Music] ironically israel regarded marwan as the best agent ever [Music] he was the number one source of the uranium intelligence few agents in the history provided such a splendid information out of this world his death is a mystery the rumor was it was a murder and just the day before he told me that he feared for his life but who did it the egyptian intelligence killed ash of marwan because he was a traitor the israelis believed that he would demand but he tricked the israelis into taking him seriously he served egypt when i think about it now is still asking myself was i responsible i was the one who unmasked him to the world [Music] in 2007 and june the 27th i got a phone call about the mysterious death that had happened just hours earlier of course i'm intrigued who wouldn't be and that's a journalist i wanted to get to the bottom of it the most pressing immediate issue was how did he die was it murder to his side was it an accident so so this is the place for which he fell he fell five floors down the family insisted that he had a whole set of plans family functions to attend he had a business meeting and that very day in that building there that's why the family believed that there was just no truth to rumors that he could have killed himself once you get to the tree but that turned out to be a lot trickier than i first imagined well the day died i was waiting for him to fawn i thought that something is wrong with the reception so i went up the stairs to see whether or not he left me a message but nothing i have always been interested in middle eastern walls when i was in the military it was known there was a super spy who worked with israel's secret intelligence service but the israeli military censorship made sure that nothing is written about it a great secret six arabs killed here in the west bank seven in gaza when the palestinian uprising of 1987 started was a turning point for me i saw an israeli soldier beating a palestinian i said this is madness you are inflicting on the palestinians the same pains with other nations inflicted on the jews and i'm not coming back until the violence stopped big deal aaron bregman is not coming back and i immigrate to the uk after i finished my phd on the arab israeli conflict i joined the department of war studies at king's college and we discussed the spy here in class or not was it mentioned right and i've published six books you know nothing about the joke don't use it in 1998 i was a consultant on a major documentary and i interviewed director of military intelligence in israel eli zera when we finished the interview we were standing in the corridor and what he said to me there changed everything for me he said the mossad top spy was a double agent i was shocked to the call what were the implications of the spy being a double if he was a double agent during one of the most important wars in middle eastern history and all the intelligence the israelis based their decisions on will be cast into doubt israel is dependent on her intelligence they have to get it right always and if the best spy mislead them it will just ruin the reputation therefore the intelligence service in keeping the story intact it's a sensitive subject the young bregman was uber motivated a scoop like this was something i always dreamt about but then i thought it might be a very dangerous game was the son of an army general and people see in that sign of social seniority he graduated in chemistry at the same time he met mona daughter of gamal abdul nasser president in egypt he fell in love [Music] he knew how to jump to the good bed he married the daughter of nothing the almighty nation nasser was like god for the arabs idol 1967 this was a crisis moment for nasa israel the egyptian air force on the ground and then egypt lost the sinai peninsula egypt felt this belief that this could happen to us it was ident in the dignity of the country and the process of rebuilding the army started or one objective launching a war regaining the sinai and regaining the sense of pride which every egyptian felt before 1967. entered into the nausea family at this moment of crisis he wants to be important but nasser didn't entrust into him the kind of missions that ash of mawan believed now i when i marry into the family i'll get them nasser he felt that this guy did not want to marry the girl for her personality he wanted to marry the daughter of the president so nasser gave asha marijuana that junior position in the presidency was like when you have adversary politician you bring him close to keep him under your eye rather than leave him free to recover asha felt in a way demeaned punished and made him resent nasser so he came to london with his new wife but reports back home indicated that he was loving an expensive lifestyle nightclubs restaurants living beyond the means of the ordinary egyptians nasser lived a very frugal life and he felt that it was highly embarrassing nasser chanted them back to kairu ashraf felt that he was handcuffed with nasser so he wants to take revenge on his father-in-law israel leaders call it the total destruction of egypt's sinai forces [Music] immediately after six days long of 67. the issue of a possible war down the road with egypt was the number one priority of the mossad every country every government has to deal with the intentions of our enemies and the more you know about it the better you can prevent the war so military intelligence for the mossad was very very important the mossad is responsible for collection and special operation [Music] this is not the cia cia deals with all the world yes agent in south america in africa maybe in the northern pole i don't know all around the world here in israeli it is focused the arch enemies can you describe for me your job and your role when you were working in the field no i prefer not so 67 that moment we started to look for intelligence that would either support or the opposite the issue of war down the world with egypt did you have any concerns about the possible implications of unmasking a spine the mossad could be very dangerous and unmasking one of the spies could have endangered me but i had to know it was a risk it was a gamble i'm a bit reckless and what did your wife have to say about all this i knew that she would be unhappy to see me involved in such a thing she was much more responsible and less reckless than me so i told her nothing of my spy games [Music] i poured over hundreds of articles and books looking for clues to see who he was when i read anything that i could put my hands on and then a key book came into my hand which is the biography of elizabeth the man who said to me that there was a double agent who misled the monster zira writes about an unnamed spy then he mentioned three people were sitting in a meeting in riyadh king faisal of saudi arabia sadat and the third man i was very suspicious when zeira did not mention the name of the third man in a chapter where it's all about the spy and you ask yourself why is it missing so the fact that it was missing yeah the fact that there was a missing it was information it was an editing thing you see why is it missing so maybe the name is not mentioned because someone is trying to hide the name but there's a reference robinson page 136 136 and here is the third man dr ashraf marwan when i saw it all my red lights started flashing my gut was telling me that his name was significant ash of malwan it was an educated yes [Music] and i sent a fox to hoping that he will react and confirm the name i took a pound but his reply was i will not reveal [Music] and this was a setback [Music] but i wonder if there was something in the fact zera did not deny so i thought that maybe i'm on the right track and refused to negotiate until they were removed this was the position when the arab world was dealt a blow from which it's still real now the explosive situation in the middle east has been further complicated by the unexpected death of egypt's president nasa this man anwar sadat took over as president-elect [Applause] and the nasa legends they were unsatisfied with sadat there was a kind of rebellion and was very kali smart somehow marwan got his hands on archive and turned it over to sadat and sadat used some of the information in that archive to put his enemies on trial [Music] it was very consequential in marwan's future career to prove to said that his loyalty to him can come at the price of stabbing in the back nassar's closest aids [Music] and sadat rewarded him he appointed shaft to be the secretary of the presidential office he was part of sadat's inner circle [Music] at the time he was not 30 yet and that is the youngest man in the job ever but knowing ashafarawan every step is calculated to build for what comes after i was pretty sure ash of mawan was the spy but they needed a confirmation so i thought that perhaps the editor of zira's book rami tal could help with the name of this spine obviously the editor discussed the matter with zera so i devised the plan i then took a flight to tel aviv ronnie bradman he wants to make sure that he has the right name i knew the name but i told him ronnie i don't know the name but if i knew it i would not tell you i don't know the name don't make me this was how it was done ten minutes into the conversation when he was warm up but not yet tired of me i looked him straight in the eye and moani said i know the name of the super spy and i said good for you and he said ashath marwan was the super spy i was taken aback his response was unmistakable as far as i remember i did not acknowledge it he looked away and smiled bingo how do you say the english said that butter would not melt in my mouth but there very much melts in my mouth so when he approached me approached me with the name and yeah it was some kind of an accomplishment i returned to london a happy man i hate the name i was delighted really celebrating but i had to confirm that he was a double agent okay so how did the mossad get involved with ashraf he wasn't walking one day in london he decided to call the israeli embassy this our moments in history are made they are made out of pure luck because when he called the embassy luckily enough the head of massage stations in europe shmuel goren was [Music] [Music] first that he might be a double agent number two is a liar and number three is that he can surrender you and which is very dangerous but being an intelligence officer if you are not as suspicious as part of your culture and character you stand for a chance not to be a successful intelligence officer and in the case of walking it is even more important to be suspicious but he said the son-in-law of the egyptian president is a walk-in we cannot miss that opportunity there [Music] my task was to go over the material he provided and we couldn't find anything which gave us any doubt about his credibility okay so what exactly did you do to be certain yes there's no point to get to all the details but there was no one and no one case where anybody said explicitly a very determined way that he was not authentic would marwan now that nasser was gone if his ambition was being fulfilled he was the right amendment for president yeah why would he want to sell secrets to israel why did he do it to feel important maybe to take revenge on his father-in-law and thirdly financial reward all in all the mossad paid him one million dollars in the 70s early 70s it's a huge amount of money everything these rallies say suggest it was resentment towards nasa hubris money and that doesn't add up to me you have to look at the ashraf marijuana angle i have a big shot [Music] how did marwan sparring feed work exactly here company so that to meetings with leaders he listened and was able to give us the inside information when the mossad met with marwan the meeting would take place in london moan would provide his documents he would get his money then he will leave first and the israeli will leave after him what was so valuable about the information he gave you the most important pieces of information which ashraf marwan gave israel he brought the order of battle of the egyptian army it means that israel would know how egypt would going to strike and they would attack us only if they have enough air cover provided by the russians it was beautiful beautiful really tried to piece together what happened to ashraf marwan was it murder was it suicide it is very interesting to be here [Music] [Music] he was on this balcony here and he even landed in these bushes [Music] the family had always said that the trajectory of his fall was such that he felt away from the building such an extent that he must have been thrown now you really see it when you're in the garden you start to see why the family were arguing was bizarre that he landed several feet out into these bushes when i spoke to bashar marwa's wife mona she thought that he may have been murdered by the israelis based on this information it was difficult to believe that he had just fallen out is part of an accident i gathered a huge amount of data during my research this is elizabeth and he was young he was a good looking man very clever very clever i had the head of israeli military intelligence telling me this spy was a double agent this could only make israel intelligence look bad so i had to take notice of it and then i uncovered something big behind the meetings in london my one was reckless he would just do stupid things take chances he would form the israelis the embassy directly ignoring the careful system whereby should form them indirectly using a third party a lady in london of course all the lines could have been taped by other agencies by the mi6 and he would arrive in meetings driving the car of the egyptian embassy in london the fact that malwan was so confident to do such things in the open perhaps points to the fact that he knew that it's okay he was a double agent and the egyptians will accept it so my conclusion is that general elizabeth was correct the spy was a double agent ronnie i've spoken to the mossad and what they're telling me is pretty compelling i think that ash of marwan was not the person the israelis thought he was [Music] abdullah israel believe ashraf gave them everything good for them ash of morowan i believe that he served with egypt well he did it under instructions from sedat he did not do it out of his own free will albeit he was prepared to play the dangerous game when sadat became president of egypt his first priority was to get back the lands egypt lost in 1967. it was a holistic movement within the country everyone coming together for one objective launching a war regaining the sinai revitalizing the arab world and creating a new spirit for the future but knowing that the israelis had weapons from the united states and western countries it had to have some cunning in the plan [Music] and the sedate has played this in the most perfect way sadaq wanted a very convincing agent to feed information to the israelis and asha faraway was the best actor to play the part everything was like staged managed to the highest possible standard they studied very well the israeli mentality to create the image to fool the israelis and he did not go to them on his knees he went to them full of himself the ashraf marwan angle playboy fun loving with a sense of pride i am epic shot and he was very successful in convincing them that he is serious about working for them supply the israelis with the egyptian preparation for the war but not complete but the israelis were very happy with what he gave them so he was accepted and they call him the agent of the century all under instructions from said that [Music] there's this double agent theory i would how did the information that marwan gave you influence your thinking my one is important one of the conditions for going to work was long-range bombers and the russians they hesitated to provide the egyptians deep bombing capabilities so the israeli evaluators of the intelligence well in the notion that they are not going to fight us the underlying message of all the information given by mawan was that egypt will not attack before she got certain weapons but what the israelis didn't know [Music] was over sadat decided to go to war against them even without the weapons what sadat needed was to surprise the israelis to catch them unprepared the key issue was how to surprise the israelis and egypt failed the right time is to attack them on yom kippur which is a holy day in israel when the israelis don't listen to radio television is off they are just insulated in the synagogues and in the houses [Music] on the 6th of october 1973 the egyptian units on the ground we're told now one hundred thousand egyptian troops start crossing the source canal igniting their spirit and mind and a will to win on the other side there are only 452 israeli soldiers [Music] the israelis are caught unprepared off-balanced did succeed in crushing the myth of israel's invincibility and the first israeli surrenders were moments of rare triumph for the egyptian commanders the egyptian surprise was very successful foreign [Music] i was mobilized recruited then i headed to sinai we believe that the israeli army is invincible and the arabs are inferior and it would be a stroll in the park but we realized that actually it's not a joke we were bombarded from the air we will bombard it from the land we fought almost face to face with egyptian soldiers they were good fighters i saw people dying around me it was frightened all the time you think that this is the end [Music] they took five kilometers of sinai and they dug in and they rebuffed everything and actually our defence minister diane came out on television and talked to the nation and explained to us that the situation is bid indeed us fighting for our life we were the heroes in 1967 what happened now so him on television was a difficult moment in israel when the war was over the egyptian people were extremely happy [Applause] can i tell you something which not many people know during the 1973 war days the rate of crime dwindled to zero there was no crime no no at all everyone united with everyone the one goal they had was to regain their sense of pride and dignity [Music] [Applause] he enabled egypt to gain the surprise advantage the egyptians are adamant they got the jump on you in 73 because ashraf misled you but it's just the opposite he didn't support they didn't surprise us they gave us an early alert before the war aschaffman run he asked for a meeting he gave the code words chemicals and he told him tomorrow i'll be in london i want speak as a male the director of the mossad to come a meeting took place at about 10 o'clock p.m speaker said scribbling the essence of the story arch of one he said tomorrow the war would be at sunset he sent early warning to his personal assistant it was disseminated through the director of military intelligence we could prepare ourselves for the attack he gave the plan wait a second ashraf said the war would start at sunset and yet the surprise attack was at two wasn't that misleading i'll answer see i saw the full report the syrians they wanted the attack to be in the morning in october the second the egyptian minister of war reached a compromise okay no sunset 10 minutes to two o'clock afternoon marwan he didn't know about the change because it was not initial he went on a mission there are those who say that moan did not know that war starts four hours earlier i don't bite i think that he was just too close to the leadership not to know such fact and the fact that he said that it will start at sunset was the climax of him misleading the mossad and israel but mossad aged have very clear motivation to tell the world that he was genuine so i was convinced ashraf marwan misled the israelis now i wanted to write a book about him but without a confirmation i couldn't just blame someone of being a spy or a double agent and they wanted to hear it from ashraf i wanted to hear the story from him so i published the history of israel i wanted to tease ashaf out so i wrote in the book without mentioning his name that he was a close family member of president nasser and that the israelis used to refer to him as the son-in-law by the way the israelis never called him the son-in-law this was my invention in order for him to react i sent him the book with a dedication to ash of mawan a hero of egypt but no response this is by the way tommy a very boring book except for this story yeah then a breakthrough an egyptian journalist contacted ashof marwan asking him are you the person at the heart of bregman's story to which he responded bregman's book is a stupid detective story in a childish sort of way i was upset so when another egyptian journalist contacted me i confirmed ashraf marwan he was the son-in-law a perfect spy an egyptian national hero for misleading israel and they should name a street after him in cairo i was obsessed with it and if you have something so important and you don't tell your wife [Music] i'm sure it does have an impact on the relationship a few weeks later i picked up a copy of el aram el arabi that's the interview a perfect spy and a national hero hash of marwan and it caused a huge steer in the middle east the agent is exposed i saw my picture in the book and my heart sank it was quite shocking for me i wondered what would be the reaction of marwan of the egyptians of the mossad it was very worrying the next day i'm in the garden [Music] through the window i can see my wife banging you have a telephone call pick up the phone and someone says how are you it's arabic accent and who are you i ask i am the person you've written about i'm taken aback [Music] he says we should meet up [Music] [Music] i was about to meet up with one of the greatest spies in modern history quite a dangerous exercise so i was concerned i took some precautions i left a message to my wife saying i'm meeting ash of mawan [Music] i walked to the intercontinental hotel looking back from time to time [Music] he was already there i've never seen him before and i was quite surprised to see how tall he was well dressed with a scarf red scarf pacing up and down and although we never met before we immediately recognized each other how are you i ask i mean he says i just had few operations we ordered coffees and when the coffee did not come to our table he got out up and went and fetched it for us which was a big mistake he could have put something inside this was my only mistake in the meeting i said to him i had one big question i wanted to ask him why did you say sunset was the war started at 2pm he smiled and said what a few hours between us bingo this was a real admission that he was misleading israel but then he added that he's concerned about his safety and it was left in that it was amazing and i was very happy to be alive general elizabeth was correct the mysterious spy who worked for israel was a double agent this is [ __ ] so well he's wrong tell me what you really think i think ronnie is wrong what eliza was doing was spreading fake news four decades before trump came to power and invented that term this was the day when israel mourned her dead the latest casualty figures eighteen hundred and fifty four killed as a goddess [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] after the war there was an inquiry committee for the failure of the military intelligence it was the responsibility of the head of the military intelligence general zera to give the alert and he did not alize when he was asked why you didn't do anything with such tremendous early warning he said i didn't want to bother the chief of staff it was busy really because elizabeth here thought they would attack us only if they have enough air cover provided by the russians and their cover is not yet ready elizabeth didn't believe astrology [Music] their inquiry committee they concluded elizabeth bought the main responsibility for the failure in the war eliza era was ousted from active service and he left the country he went uh with his family to the u.s about 13 years after the war nearly published his book he came to the conclusion that marwan was a double agent and his real employers were the egyptians and not the israelis elizabeth he wants to find the scapegoat all the stories about the double agent it stems from elizabeth he wants to justify i'm furious about him what can i do [Music] i actually spoke to sierra yesterday sierra said all these facts so what do you want to prove i like i'll i'll throw it away he said on october 4th that early afternoon the soviets started listen can you stop here i'll tell you often [Music] when zeira wanted to rehabilitate himself he started talking to journalists writers and he gave them some hints one day he asked me for a meeting he tried to feed me also with this false [ __ ] of double agent i listened to him and i told him ellie you are wrong you feeding false information just for your prize hebrews ego whatever and i didn't write the story because i have more integrity but why to kill a good story with the facts and ronnie breitbart believed elizabeth published the name in lran and spread he was a double agent about a month after the murder there was a major development [Music] there were three witnesses and they were sitting in a room which overlooked the balcony just 20 yards from his home [Music] so i presume witness joseph rapaci would have been sitting here because he had the direct view of the balcony he saw from the corner of his eye something fall that they then rushed over to the window looked down and could see ashraf marwan's body and it was then that he saw two shadowy figures middle eastern appearance looking over the belt i flew too hungry and met rapassi in budapest and he did confirm to me that that was his story which of course deepened the mystery at the time it was a major development because it looked as if it could be if there are people of middle eastern appearance maybe they could be egyptian secret services and it did feel speculation about who would possibly kill after the meeting in the intercontinental hotel in london aschaff he would form from time to time i think he was lonely he could not have discussed it with mona his wife he could not have discussed his spy games with his kids or friends so ironically he had me the person who exposed him in the first place [Music] ashraf had strange habits he would phone me and keep quiet listening to my voice at the other end of the line put it down on the phone ring again and start the conversation [Music] the more ashraf asked personal questions about family and kids the more concerned i became for him because as long as he was the son-in-law with no faith i did not care about him as a human being but now i had relationship with him i knew about his operations about the family about the kids that i became very worried that something might happen to him that perhaps the egyptians not buy into my story of him being their perfect spy the double agent and they will try to hurt him or perhaps the mossad might do a stupid thing i spent sleepless nights concerned about what could happen i thought that if anything happened to him it would be on my conscience and ironically from trying to unmask this super spy i started looking for ways to protect him anything which was said about him to report to him so he could take precautions all my work my lectures my writing my family all was put aside he became the first priority by that time i was so worried that something will happen to him that i would just look for anything written about him and he would get the articles and usually just phone back and ask a few questions because most of them were in hebrew on one occasion something was published in israel the article is about ashaf marwan shaking hands with egypt's president mubarak and the title is the man there is mossad's man in cairo and why did mubarak hug the person who is regarded as the best mossad agent in egypt i thought the egyptians might want to have revenge i sent it to asha and when he got it he phoned me from a taxi [Music] and he just shouted and actually cried why are they doing it to me they the mossad is trying to drive a wedge between me and mubarak and this is their revenge for me misleading them he was so upset that even i became very upset you think he was upset because israel's story was a lie yes and then he said there was no one spy we were a group of 40 people whose task it was to feed the israelis the wars your single double agent there was egypt [Music] he told me about the medals he received from sadat [Music] wow it was huge couldn't believe it but he was scared he told me he feared for his life and i just realized what a stupid thing it was to unmask a living spy but ronnie you told me that the higher value of unmasking marwan was about staying true to history and having an accurate record of what happened the truth of the matter when i unmasked my one i couldn't care less about history i just cared about a huge scoop that i had [Music] he wanted as he put it the story today [Music] the era published a new version of his book and to promote the book he went to a television studio and he said because [Music] [Music] took him to court for libel so the mayor countered by taking zera to court for life so there were two libel cases the mossad realized that it's getting out of hand these two elderly gentlemen which were compared to those who are sitting on the balcony in the muppet show twirling and spilling secrets so the mossad said let's go to arbitration i was invited to the arbitration by general elizabeth who paid for my flight ticket by the way the era wanted me to tell the judge that he was not my source which was correct but the judge asked me about the era's book to which i said yes it was an important source the lawyer of the head of the mossad took out this book and waved it in the air i understood that it was a big mistake to admit that the book was my source because for the judge the book in the era were basically the same so stupid to be brought there all the way from london to give testimony to protect the era and in fact i was the one who put indirectly the blame on the era by saying that his book was one of my most important sources it was very embarrassing in fact after all that yeah terrible it's amazing it's not amazing tommy it's terrible everyone think that i'm clever i was so stupid in the era lost and then came a big mistake the judge wrote a report where openly he stated that ash of mawan was a mossad agent this is the report of the judge zera versus zamir here look ashraf's name is mentioned many times it was terrible here they say there was a top agent who was handled by the mossad the agent or malwan they expose him his name here so he is mentioning this report so many times as long as historian eon bregman said what he said about mawan this was bad but not the end of the world but the moment a judge says the agent marwan this was official when i saw the report online i nearly fell off my chair his life was in a real danger i sent a fax message to ash of marwan to phone me i collected my son put him in front of the television the 10 of an answering machine was flashing today i was taken aback when i heard ashraf's own voice it was very unusual aschoff was a real spy spies don't leave messages and then a second message please hello can you call me thank you [Applause] i could see that he was under pressure [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i've known him for five years this was the first time that he left messages on my answering machine i took out my old tape recorder i for the first time decided to record the conversation i dialed the number my finger was shaking he picked up the phone hello my friends i'm okay and how are you yeah sure absolutely yes yes absolutely yes bye-bye you asked me to phone him again put it down and two minutes later i'm talking to myself two minutes later and he's not answering this was strange i was very concerned that he said to me follow me again and then i tried again so something is happening in the room when i'm talking to him you see i'm waiting for him and two minutes later third time what's happening in the room here there you know i phoned him he said follow me again i'm trying and trying and trying hi hello no no don't don't worry so em the report of the judge came out when there are details there this is the bottom line ashoff wanted the story to die what he gets here is a report from me that his story is very much alive and i'm sure that he's very stressed i'm sure that his very world is awful for him are you in england tomorrow i will be in town i will be at king's college if you want to meet we can meet but it's up to you okay my friend all the best bye-bye bye-bye i'm shaking [Music] [Music] you know this is one of the this is one of the real events where people pay with their lives he paid with his life and he didn't deserve it [Music] after the death of azeroth marwan ronnie was in shock i felt it be pain it was very painful when he died i spent hours in the mountains thinking about it reflecting about it his death was my failure to protect him this is how i looked at it i flew to interview ronnie bregman we had a very lengthy conversation he said maybe it's my fault then we talked a lot in details with all these arguments which i raised before and the end of it ronnie told me you know yossi you are right i don't believe anymore that he was a double agent you convinced me me [Music] they asked me okay he got such an egypt funeral with all the leadership coming with black through his widow stand there all the ih alone passed by here kissing air whispering they asked me how could it be that this is a traitor i watched many mafia movies when the mafia killed one of their members all the dawns are passing by the widow whispering we will give you money we will give you money the funeral loss of ashraf marwan reminds me they say [Music] this is westminster corona court where there was a three-day hearing to decide a verdict on the death of ashraf marwan during the inquest was mentioned he had been writing his memoirs i had seen where the memoirs were supposed to be stored on the shelf and they disappeared according to the family on the day that he died now in those memoirs he was expected to discuss his role in the october war of course it was going to reject the allegation that he was a mossad agent but they disappeared according to the family the marwan family threw their lawyer asked me to appear before the corner i was sitting where the corner listened to the testimonies and it was quite confusing and my mind was telling me wow it was a murder and a minute later no it was an accident and then no it was a suicide and to sit there with a family back of my mind there was the question what was my responsibility was a very unpleasant experience there was a three-day hearing to decide and at the end of it the coroner handed down an open verdict on his death which the family were very pleased with because in land family to roulette suicide i did feel vermont she was devastated [Music] um [Applause] foreign [Music] be [Music] [Music] she's [Music] [Music] [Music] in egypt is regarded as a patriot who worked for sadat to deceive the israelis basically by giving egypt a four hour lead in the 1973 war but israel regard him as a national hero the israeli side of things is supported by evidence the egyptian side has yet to present its own record and only when both of them are available can we decide which is the more authentic version of the story the question is why is the egyptian intelligence services 50 years down the line not releasing any shred of evidence about usher of marijuana the fact that we do not have any evidence is really not about ashaf marwan it is about the fact that if the egyptians release any documents it will establish a precedent that the public can have a say on how the egyptian state should be transparent that it should be accountable and the egyptian state doesn't want to establish this precedent at all [Music] even though by not revealing anything about ash of marwan it can be still raising the suspicion that in fact he was an israeli spy rather than a double agent the ashraf marwan story this is not the real story this is a side story of something that is much bigger [Music] the egyptian people they want to know the truth [Music] we have the full report of the meeting between zamir and ash of mahwan just released by the israelis there are five pages enough information for the two schools of thought to find enough elements to support their own theory [Music] i always believe ashaf was a double agent never doubted that i don't understand why still sticking to this [ __ ] theory of a double agent i can understand that maybe at the beginning he was under the spell of the impression of elizae fine but then after he already admitted in our conversation he was almost crying i don't know it's an enigma for me yossi told me that he convinced you ashraf was not a double agent i don't think that this was the case the yoshi believes in what he believes along with the mossad the truth it's in the eye of the beholder the fact that he is not ready to face the real story and to have the courage and the gods to say i was mistaken it's his for his problem with his conscience [Music] unmask the name of a human source it's a sin what would you say to him go to hell bastard really go to alberta how dare you because you don't put in danger a human being because you want to be famous when it comes to the story of ashaf marwan there is no ego in me the mossad they can't give up on the story of asha and when i'm in bed at night as he put it i don't really think about whether or not he was double i lost interest in this question tommy it's about the pain which i inflicted on him in unmasking him i just want you to ponder a question though he's still believing that he's a double agent is it not easier to believe that because then everything that you went through would at least then not be for nothing [Music] um [Music] [Music] what impact did this have on your marriage of course i divorced but it was not because of the marwan story but i think in hindsight it does have impact because it's a secret my then wife when she came to know about it she had the common sense to tell me that it will end in tears but it was of course was too late and by that time the train already left the station [Music] or if they want to have your food my fish if i open this one they jump do it yeah there are guppies you know guppies like to jump but with them they jump and i can save them because i just spin for the floor and pull them back look look how many of these this afternoon historic documents concluding the treaty of peace between the arab republic of egypt and the state of israel will be signed [Applause] [Music] so so [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Tue Dec 14 2021