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LONDON--A newspaper reported yesterday that an undercover Syrian agent worked as a clerk for 20 years in the British Embassy in Damascus and tricked a diplomat there into signing a visa for Nezar Hindawi...
...Sunday Times said Syrian intelligence placed a Palestinian man in the British Embassy's visa section, and that he persuaded embassy second secretary Anthony Arnold to sign Hindawi's visa "as a matter of routine...
...Sunday Times did not identify the Palestinian clerk who allegedly worked for Syria, but said he was a senior assistant in the visa section. It said he was about 50 and had gone to Syria as a child...
After Hindawi was arrested in April, the Palestinian disappeared from his job and may now be in the United States, the newspaper said. When he disappeared, so did the embassy's records of Hindawi's visa applications and those of several Syrians who were given British visas, the paper said...
British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said Friday that Hindawi's visa was obtained under a false name and that his visa applications twice were backed by notes from the Syrian Foreign Ministry...