"Israel": Prisoner X Crossed Red Line, Hizbullah Man More Professional

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Prisoner's X case is still at the top of "Israel's" concern, particularly the alleged information that Ben Zygier tried to contact Hizbullah.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Prisoner X was carrying a disk containing sensitive information, which he planned to pass onto a Hizbullah informant.
The report further claimed that Hizbullah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah knew about Zygier's communication with the informant, who Zygier had tried to recruit as a double agent.

On Sunday German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that information passed on by Zygier led to the capture of two Mossad agents in Lebanon by Hizbullah.

According to reports, Zygier believed the informant was going to provide services to the Mossad; in actuality the man was reporting on Zygier back to his handlers. When the man requested proof that Zygier worked for the Mossad, Zygier passed him classified information, including the names of Mossad sources working inside of Lebanon.
As was published in Der Spiegel and the Sydney Times, in 2005, after a year of learning various techniques of the trade, Zygier was sent to Europe, in order to infiltrate companies doing business with Iran and Syria. Intelligence sources in the Zionist entity said that among other things, Zygier tried to gain entry into companies in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
One of the companies was in the city of Milano, Italy. Although initially it had been reported to be a front company for the Mossad, it was a real company, doing business with clients in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Zygier was soon hired by the company, and worked there for a period, even managing customer accounts, till it became obvious he was losing interest in the job and was fired.

After some time, when it became clear to his bosses that Zygier was not bringing in the goods, they called him back to "Israel". There he was assigned to "Tzomet", a bureaucratic branch of the Mossad, which dealt mostly with the centralization of information collected from agency operatives around the world. According to the reports, this exposed employees of the branch to information which they would not have had access to otherwise.

Zygier took his transfer out of the field and into the office hard, and determined to prove himself capable of operational status, decided to embark on his own mission to recruit informants. In 2008, Zygier set up a meeting with the man in Lebanon. Unwittingly, in his desire to prove to the man that he was who he claimed to be, he ended up serving as the man's source of information, eventually leading to the arrest of two of the Mossad's top-level Lebanese agents.

In January 2010, the Mossad decided to bring Zygier back to "Israel", because it feared his life might be in danger, as Hizbullah knew his true identity. During questioning, Zygier admitted to the transgressions, and he explained his motives.
According to one of the foreign journalists covering the story, Zygier had the intention of proving himself, but got in over his head. The journalist quotes a high ranking "Israeli" source who told her, "Zygier tried to get something and failed. He met a man who was simply more professional than him." At that point he crossed the red line, in essence, and began working for the other side.

Source: Ynet, Edited by moqawama.org