Australian security officials have claimed that Ben Zygier, the suspected Mossad spy known as Prisoner X, may have been close to blowing the whistle on Israeli intelligence operations.
“[Zygier] may well have been about to blow the whistle, but he never got the chance,” an Australian security official was quoted by a media report as saying.
An Australian-born Israeli, Zygier (34), also known as Ben Allen or Ben Alon, was mysteriously imprisoned by Israel in 2010 and hanged himself several months later in a maximum-security cell.
He was set to reveal details, including on the use of fraudulent Australian passports, either to the Australian government or to the media before he was arrested, said an AAP news agency report.
We'll never know.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/prisoner-x-was-set-to-expose-mossad-missions/article4419541.ece