Israel denies Prisoner X had contacts with Australian intelligence services

“The Prime Minister's office stresses that the late Mr. Zygier had no contact with the Australian security agencies,” a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed on Tuesday.
 
    Netanyahu's office, which supervises Israel’s intelligence services, also claimed Israel and Australian governments and security agencies enjoyed “excellent cooperation” and had “full coordination and complete transparency in dealing with current issues.”
 
 
The statement seems to be an apparent move to defuse tensions with the Australian government.
 
On February 12, Australian reporter Trevor Bormann revealed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that Ben Zygier was “found hanged in a cell with state-of-the-art surveillance systems” near Tel Aviv in late 2010.
 
Sources told ABC News that Zygier was arrested by his spymasters after they believed that he had informed Australia's security services of Mossad operations he was involved in, including a top-secret mission in Italy.
 
Following the revelation, the Tel Aviv regime was forced to admit that Zygier had been jailed under a false identity “for security reasons” after Australian media disclosed the secret despite Israel’s great efforts to cover it up.
 
The Australian TV also said that the Mossad spy agency had long been planning for the missions Zygier had disclosed to Australia's security services.
 
Media reports speculate Melbourne-born Zygier was killed by Mossad over the suspicion that he had been on the verge of exposing Tel Aviv’s secrets.