Former Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, jailed for 18 years for treason and espionage after leaking Israel’s nuclear secrets to a British newspaper in 1986, spoke to Channel 2 and recalled how while in London, he had been drawn in by a Mossad agent named Cheryl Bentov, who operated under the alias “Cindy,” and how he was later caught by Israeli authorities in Rome.
“I started speaking with her,” Vanunu tells Channel 2, explaining that if she had approached him he would have grown immediately suspicious.
He stresses that he did not “fall in love with her,” but was attracted nevertheless.
Ex-nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu attending a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in 2010. Vanunu has been petitioning for years against a warrant preventing him from leaving Israel. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Vanunu also added that he believed Mossad agents had been placed all throughout the London neighborhood where he met “Cindy.”
The full interview is set to be broadcast on Friday evening.
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