Ashraf Marwan fell from the window of his fifth floor apartment in London's exclusive Mayfair. A billionaire businessman, he'd lived a quiet life in England for many years. In Part 1 of this episode, we look into his previous work as a spy - perhaps the greatest spy of the 20th Century. An Egyptian, in the 1970s he provided huge amounts of high level government information to Israel. These intelligence reports helped to shape Israeli policy. But had Marwan been a double agent the whole time?

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