(27.6.2006) But the Foreign Ministry documents prove that Halevy and the Mossad were acting on outside interests. They worked hand in glove with the Central Intelligence Agency to torpedo the move, and all this for reasons of ego – the Foreign Ministry had dared to enter „their“ province, secret contacts with countries with which Israel did not have diplomatic relations.

The Mossad convinced prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and deputy foreign minister Yossi Beilin to stop the contacts with North Korea on the grounds that the American government was opposed to them. But fate had the last laugh: At that same time the American administration was in contact with the North, and in October 1994, it reached an agreement: