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Australian Officials Dept: His statement followed an Australian Broadcasting Corp. report on Tuesday that sought to lift the veil of secrecy from a case that Israel has long kept under wraps and revealed the man was suspected of links to Israel's Mossad espionage agency, according to Montreal Gazette. Carr revealed that some Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials knew in 2010 that Allen was detained, contradicting an earlier DFAT statement that it only became aware after he died and cANBERRA, Australia - The Australian government said Wednesday it would review how the Foreign Ministry handled the case of an Australian-Israeli citizen found hanged in an Israeli prison cell, and Foreign Minister Bob Carr acknowledged Australian officials had known of the man's secret detention in 2010. Carr said a review would be done on his department's handling of the prisoner, who is named in his Australian passport Ben Allen. He was also known as Ben Alon and was born Ben Zygier, and it is not certain that the passport name is genuine. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.