Newsletter No. 582
News-Analysis
April 19, 2007

 

JAPANESE NATIONAL SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN EGYPT-ISRAEL NUCLEAR SPY RING

The details remain sketchy, but a report has emerged that Shiro Izu, a Japanese national resident in Hong Kong, is being sought by the Egyptian government for possible involvement in a nuclear espionage case.

Egyptian prosecutors allege that Mohammed Sayed Saber, an Egyptian, stole documents from Egypt’s nuclear agency and sold them to the Israeli Mossad for US$17,000. The story goes that Shiro Izu and Irishman Brian Peter are agents of the Mossad, and that they provided Saber with a computer program used to crack Egyptian files between February 2006 and February 2007. The documents pertained to classified information regarding Egypt’s Inshas Nuclear Research Center, north of Cairo.

Many points about the story have not been confirmed, and most of the information seems to be coming from the Egyptian state media.

I’ve never heard before of any case of a Japanese Mossad agent. If more substantial news becomes available about Shiro Izu and this unusual case, we will report it.