One of Egypt's most famous spies, who convinced the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad that he worked with them during the War of Attrition between 1967 and 1973, died in Cairo at the age of 74.
Ahmed al-Hawan died after a long fight against illness, and his funeral is slated to be held on Wednesday, Egyptian state media reported.
He had provided the Israelis with false military information with the help of Egyptian Intelligence from 1967 until 1973.
He took from the Mossad a state-of-the-art transmission device that only the United States and Israel had back then, and gave it to Egyptian intelligence.
In the late 1970s, his biography was made into a popular drama series, where his character became known as Goma'a al-Shawan.
source : http://abna.ir
