GREER FAY CASHMAN
Jerusalem Post
03-31-2005
Headline: Egyptian-Jewish spy ring gets belated salute
Byline: GREER FAY CASHMAN
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 04
Thursday, March 31, 2005 -- Fifty years after an Egyptian court convicted them of being Zionist agents, and 37 years after their release from Egyptian prisons, Marcelle Ninio, Robert Dassa and Meir Zafran were accorded military ranks Wednesday in recognition of their service to the state and their years of suffering. The three are the last surviving members of Operation Susannah, an Israeli spy and sabotage network.
Ninio and Dassa were promoted to lieutenant-colonel (res.) and Zafran to major (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces. The ...