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Spotlight | Azerbaijan, France, Israel
Mossad's aborted mediation of Paris-Baku spy scrap

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David Barnea, Director of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
David Barnea, Director of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. © Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP

As tensions between France and Azerbaijan escalated late last year, with intelligence officers expelled from both sides, Baku's services asked Mossad to talk to the DGSE on its behalf, we have learned.

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