The Burning Man and the Spectacle Case: How the Lavon Affair Exposed a Top-Secret 1954 Spy Sabotage Plot
The Lavon Affair in Egypt, 1954, involved a covert Israeli operation codenamed Operation Suzanna. A series of fires at Egyptian, American, and British facilities in Alexandria and Cairo were revealed to be deliberate acts of sabotage aimed at straining Egypt’s relations with Western powers. Investigations uncovered identical incendiary devices and distinctive eyeglass cases, leading authorities to capture a Jewish Egyptian cell led by Dr. Moussa Marzouk, an agent of Israeli Military Intelligence. The operation’s goal was to incite fear among Egyptian Jews to encourage emigration to Israel and…
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