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Beer is known to have had advance information about the Sinai campaign and, presumably, the coordinated Franco-British attack on Suez, which he allegedly passed on to the Soviet Union. The Russians, clearly, did not inform the Egyptians. They seem to have used their foreknowledge to behave with brutal swiftness in crushing the Hungarian rebellion, confident that the Suez attack would be certain to divert world public opinion.
By week's end Israel's mystery man became even more mysterious: it was discovered that he had never been circumcised. Stunned Israelis could only wonder if it were possible that the man known as Dr. Israel Beer was not even a Jew.