He said that the Haaretz report is a slander about the dead
Youssef Al-Qaeed: Mossad's report on Haykal is a response to his museum in Alexandria
Heikal was close to Abdel Nasser.
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Robert St. John (right) who was chosen to carry out the recruitment plan.
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Journalist and writer Youssef Al-Qaeed, who was known to be very close to the late great journalist Muhammad Hassanein Heikal, said that what the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” recently published about the Mossad’s attempt to recruit Haykal, who is close to President Gamal Abdel Nasser, is a response to the establishment of the Haykal Museum in the Library of Alexandria, given what The late journalist was known for his hard-line stances against Israel, according to Al-Qaid.
The Egyptian writer said in his intervention on the “Cairo and the People” channel with the journalist Ibrahim Issa, the day before yesterday, that “Heikal did not mention Israel once except preceded by the word (enemy), and he did not accept anything else from those around him,” in evidence of the impossibility of The possibilities of Haykal's recruitment by the Mossad, and he added that the Haaretz report is a slander about the dead, because Haykal is not alive in order to belie what is said about him.
Al-Qaeed said, “I believe in the constants of his life, i.e., the constants of Haykal, which I know well, and I was close to him and see him on a weekly basis. I say that these words cannot have happened, and that their goal is to distort a person who no longer exists, and that this is a critical response to the opening of a museum. Muhammad Hassanein Heikal in the Library of Alexandria, and it is a very great museum, where the family took all his possessions, books and things to include them in a corner of the library.”
In response to Ibrahim Issa’s explanation that the report spoke of the failure of the Mossad’s recruitment attempt, and that he praised Heikal’s patriotism and ferocity, Al-Qa’id replied, “This is an absurd scene and an attempt to blur the image, but millions of Arabs knew and read Haykal.”
The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, had published a report last week by journalist Amir Oren, in which he said that the Israeli intelligence service (Mossad) tried to recruit Heikal, who was codenamed (Uzi), through a plan that included American and French journalists, academics and an Egyptian police officer, but the plan was settled. In the end, the American journalist Robert St. John, who was called Codia (Samba), had to implement it under the name (Uzi-Samba), and they harnessed a network in Athens, Rome, Paris, Geneva, Washington, and Los Angeles to support the plan, and Johan was supposed to meet with a structure in New York, But the plan failed for Heikal's sudden travel.
Oren pointed out in his report that Haykal's file covered the period from 1959 to 1960, and did not specify what was required to be recruited or used to influence Egypt's policy and make it more moderate, from Tel Aviv's point of view, or reduce the level of hostility in public opinion.
Oren commented that “following Haykal’s writings makes it difficult to believe that he was turned into an agent for Israel. He was a fierce patriot who resented the rising power of Israel, not the kind of people who could be tempted with money, and he had nothing in his life that could be blackmailed through him.” ».
• Heikal did not mention Israel once, except that it was preceded by the word “enemy,” and he did not accept anything else from those around him.
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