By Joe Middleton For Mailonline
Published: 14:07 GMT, 10 February 2019 | Updated: 00:24 GMT, 11 February 2019
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British spies smuggled an Iranian nuclear scientist to the UK across the English Channel on a dinghy after using the migrant crisis as cover, it has been claimed.
The 47-year-old man is thought to have hidden among other Iranians on an inflatable boat when making the crossing.
The scientist travelled by 3,000 miles by land to the French coast near Calais after he was reportedly smuggled out of his homeland and into neighbouring Turkey by the Israeli secret service Mossad.
The nuclear scientist was originally smuggled out of Iran by Mossad before making the lengthy trip across Europe and into the UK
The Iranian scientist, who has information about Iran's nuclear programme and reportedly helped plan the 2012 assassination of Tehran's top nuclear expert Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, arrived in Lydd, Kent, with 12 other migrants on New Year's Eve.
But MI6 faced a problem. They wanted to interview the scientist, and help him make his way on to America, but,
