Ashraf Marwan

The report on Ashraf Marwan and his assassination that appeared on 60 minutes only confirms what we have known all along: that this utterly corrupt man was an Israeli agent. The accounts by the Israeli intelligence officials did not bring new revelations but confirmed what we have known all along. Now people may wonder why the Egyptian government insists that he was a "patriot." The answer is simple: they don't want the reputation of Egyptian intelligence to be tainted by the record of this man who reached high positions in the era of the ill-cited, Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian government learned from the case of Elie Cohen in Syria (and his role and contributions were so grossly exaggerated in Zionist propaganda which filled books and a film) that one exposed spy can prove to be embarrassing to the government. And the Egyptian government and its intelligence service would not speak on camera, so they assigned one of the "researcher" in the Ahram Center (which used to house serious scholars in the 1960s and early 1970s but now has people often handpicked by Egyptian security services). His official account is that yes, Marwan gave tons of information and documents to the Israeli intelligence services but that he did that only to win their trust. But explain that wild scenario to me: so according to the claim of the Egyptian intelligence service the man gave all the information to the Mossad because he wanted to win their trust and once he did that, the Israeli intellignece service would then spill the beans for his pleasure? I mean, how dumb is that claim. I think that the Egyptian intelligence service killed him after the release of information on his role in 1973, and then they gave him a hero's burial for misinformation purposes.