An extraordinary claim that Israeli intelligence may have had a hand in an airline hijacking before sending in commandos to rescue the hostages at Entebbe was made to the Foreign Office.

It came via David Colvin, the first secretary at the British embassy in Paris, according to a newly released National Archives file.

From:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/01/nhijack01.xml.

See also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6710289.stm
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=883.

Perhaps not so extraordinary or surprising, really.