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The strange case of defector Musa Kusa, the former Libyan foreign minister and longtime intelligence chief, deserves another look.

It’s been reported in the British media that he was a double agent who worked for MI-6 and the CIA, recruited in 2001 during a visit to London. That seems plausible, as Kusa has been documented as leading a Libyan diplomatic negotiating team in London in October 2001, in a 2007 book by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. It could also explain why U.K. and U.S. authorities lifted the financial and travel sanctions against him without further ado.

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