Mr. Amir "changed history, " says a grim-faced Carmi Gillon, the agency's leader at the time.

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Ms Carmi says there was the clear potential for a conflict of interest, but insists she did not know the relationships at the time.

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Ms Carmi says she is happy to be judged on her work, carried out on the basis of all she was able to find out at the time.

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