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TEL AVIV, Israel, June 3 (UPI) -- Austrian politician Peter Sichrovsky has vehemently denied ever being an agent for the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
However, Sichrovsky, a former close aide to Austrian far right leader Joerg Haidar, confirmed having held many meetings with Israeli officials, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Friday.
"I didn't spy for the Mossad, I didn't receive any money from the Mossad, and I did no harm to Austrian interests," Sichrovsky, who is Jewish, told the Israeli daily Haaretz in a telephone interview from the United States.
The Austrian weekly Profil published an article earlier this week accusing Sichrovsky, the former secretary-general of Joerg Haider's far-right Freedom Party, of having worked for the Mossad and given it information about Iraq and Libya.
Sichrovsky said he planned to cooperate with Austria's investigation against him. He said Profil had received anonymous letters accusing him of spying for the Mossad, so it asked him whether he had met with Mossad personnel. "I responded laughingly: I don't know who I met with, and I don't know whether they were Mossad people or not, since they didn't show me a badge. In any case, I wasn't James Bond.' I said this as a joke."
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