PARIS, Sept 6: A French woman, Nima Zamar, has revealed in a book to be published next week in Paris by a major French publishing house that she spent eight years as a double agent working for Mossad, the Israeli secret services, and spent much of that time infiltrating the Hezbollah.

In the book — Je devais aussi tuer — (I also had to kill), Nima, who is a French citizen of Romanian origin, says she was recruited in 1993 in Israel where she’d decided to emigrate and where she was doing her military service for the Israeli army.

For her first mission, during the summer of 1995, she managed to make use of her fluent Arabic to get herself accepted as a recruit in a Hezbollah training camp said to be located in Libya.

One of her first jobs was to learn how to kill, in her words, “to abolish all segments of humanity considered as prejudiciable to our cause.” It turns out that the camp director, notorious for his paranoia, suspected Nima’s Arab roommate Yasmina, a legitimate believer in the Arab cause, of being a double agent. Nima’s first mission was to kill Yasmina, which she said she managed to do “in cold blood,” although her account of the event seems to indicate it wasn’t as easy to accomplish as she claims today.

The murder of Yasmina becomes the first of several murders she’s ordered to commit, by all methods possible, among them traditional firearms as pistols and knives, indeed when possible with one’s bare hands. Nima says she has no remorse about having blindly followed the orders given her, and seems to affirm in her book that the methods used within the Hezbollah training camp don’t differ in any way from those taught by the Mossad.

Both sides, she suggests, make widescale use not only of murder, but also of manipulation, in any case her training by the Hezbollah is put to good use as during the next five years she easily infiltrates groups located in Syria and Lebanon.