The unnamed official said that while Zygier was "extremely sharp", he lacked focus. Zygier's work with one company became erratic and it was decided "to let him go", which led him to a mundane desk job in Tel Aviv. At this point, in order to get back into favour, it is alleged that Zygier set about working on secret projects.
"Zygier wanted to achieve something that he didn't end up getting," an Israeli official familiar with the probe into the Zygier case said. "And then he ended up on a precipitous path. He crossed paths with someone who was much more professional than he was."
It appears that despite having the intention of turning a high-level European Hezbollah operative into a double-agent, Zygier was himself played. To prove his credentials to his contact Zygier gave up classified and damaging Mossad intelligence - including the names of the two agents.
Zygier was eventually arrested by the Israelis in February 2010, when he was charged with numerous security offences and placed in a solitary confinement cell.
When he was arrested, Zygier was carrying a compact disc loaded with more intelligence files that he might have planned to pass on to his Hezbollah contact, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
-Independent