Jerusalem - Israel's Mossad spy agency was holding a secret rendezvous in a remote Cyprus village when its electronic lookouts were arrested by Cypriot police last week, the Israel newspaper Ha'aretz reported yesterday.
It said Israel had now described the circumstances to the Cypriot authorities to back up its assurances that Cyprus itself was not the target of the Mossad operation. An Israeli official refused to comment on the report or on any aspect of the affair, in which the two Israelis are still detained in Cyprus.