An internationally acclaimed Israeli expert in chemical and biological weapons, Marcus Klingberg was also the highest-ranking Soviet spy to be caught in Israel and one of the longest serving and most successful Kremlin agents overseas. His story, as he admitted, read like a classic spy thriller.
As the former deputy director of Israel’s secret Ness Ziona biological weapons research centre, Klingberg had access to all of Israel’s top secrets in this clandestine field — most of which he is presumed to have passed to Moscow, which in turn may have passed on the information to Arab countries. Israeli officials claimed that Klingberg did more harm to Israel than any other spy in the country’s history.
It was old-fashioned spy craft. Klingberg, given the codename Rok