A man who died in an Israeli jail was arrested after unwittingly interfering in a secret intelligence operation to recover the bodies of three soldiers, according to an Australian news report.
Ben Zygier, who had Australian and Israeli citizenship, was arrested in January 2010 and held in secret under the name of Prisoner X on unspecified security charges.
A judicial inquiry in Israel found Mr Zygier, 34, who allegedly worked for the Israeli secret service Mossad, hanged himself in a high-security jail cell the same year.
Australian state television said Mr Zygier unintentionally sabotaged a secret Mossad mission in 2007 to exhume the bodies of three Israeli tank crewmen captured and killed by Syrian forces during Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
The ABC report quoted a former commander in Lebanon's Bekaa valley as saying that Zygier had revealed his name and that of a Lebanese agent for Israel to Lebanese intelligence.
Ziad al Homsi, former mayor of a Lebanese village, told ABC that he had been approached by Mossad in 2007 and flown to China on the pretext of attending a mayoral convention.
He was introduced to a Syrian man who said his brother in Europe was working to return the bodies of the Israelis captured during the so-called Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the Bekaa Valley.
Prisoner X was held in Ayalon prison The three were named as Israeli-US citizen Zachary Baumel and his fellow Israeli crewmen Yehuda Katz and Zvi Feldman.
Mr al Homsi told the ABC that he suspected he had been ensnared in a Mossad operation. He was eventually told by others involved that the missing men were buried in Lebanon.
"At the last meeting they informed me about the location of the corpses exactly. I had to find a way to get the bodies and keep them," Mr al Homsi said.
He was given no details on how the remains would be turned over to a separate Mossad team.
The mission failed, Mr al Homsi said, after he was arrested on May 16, 2009 by Lebanese special forces and later jailed for 15 years for spying for Mossad. He served three years.
Mr Zygier's crime was to inadvertently reveal Mr al Homsi's identity to a Lebanese man he was trying to turn into a double agent, but who worked for Lebanese intelligence, the ABC report said.
The case was kept secret until February when it was exposed by Australian television, sparking a media debate about Mr Zygier's intelligence role and the nature of his alleged crime.
Mr Zygier, acting alone, was trying to trying to turn around a fading career with Mossad, by whom he was recruited in 2004 after taking Israeli citizenship in the mid-1990s, the ABC report said.
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