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Peter Sichrovsky (Photo: EU Parliament)
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| By Associated Press May 29, 2005 |
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A former senior official in Austria's Freedom Party said he worked for Israel's spy agency while serving alongside its one-time populist leader Joerg Haider, a news magazine reported Saturday.
Peter Sichrovsky, a former general secretary of the Freedom Pary, was quoted by the Austrian news magazine Profil as saying he worked with Mossad at a time when Haider was holding talks with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and other Mideast leaders.
"I cooperated with the Mossad until my resignation from politics," he was quoted by Profil as saying. "I wanted to help Israel and certainly did nothing wrong. I am no James Bond."
Sichrovsky could not be reached for comment Saturday. The interview is to appear in Profil's next issue on Monday.
Haider, who since has founded a new political party, was quoted by Profil as saying Sichrovsky's confession was "nonsense."
Haider had visited Saddam on the eve of the Iraq war and formed a friendship with Moammar Gadhafi when the Libyan leader was an international pariah.
Sichrovsky, a writer, said Israel was interested in exploiting Haider's connections.
"Israel wanted to use Haider as a bridge to the Arab lands with which no official contacts existed," he was quoted by Profil as saying.
Haider is known for past remarks sympathetic to the Nazis. He left the Freedom Party and founded the Union for Austria's Future earlier this year.
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