Alleged Spy Remanded
(N.Z. Prost Assn.—Copyright) ■ NAZARETH, January 30. An Australian-born Israeli who claims that he was ordered by Syrians to assassinate the Israeli Minister of Defence (General Moshe Dayan) has been remanded in custody in Nazareth for trial on spy charges.
Han Nussbacher, aged 28, is said to have crossed to Syria in October, 1965, five years after arriving in Israel from Australia; and, in 1966, to have been sent to Cyprus as a Syrian agent with the alias, “Allen Steel.” Nussbacher says that in May, 1967, the Syrians ordered him to return to Israel and “liquidate” General Dayan with a telescopic rifle, but, he says, he rejected the assignment because it was too difficult
The Nazareth court was told that after the 1967 war, Syria tried to repatriate Nussbacher in a prisoner-of-war exchange. He was passed off on Red Cross officials as an Israeli Air Force officer and flown to Austria, not to Australia, as he had requested. Nussbacher then contacted Iraqi intelligence agents, but was rebuffed and beaten. He complained to the Viennese police, who decided to return him to Israel. He arrived there last month and was arrested. ,
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32210, 31 January 1970, Page 11
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