The request for information "was communicated to the Egyptian services," the report said.

El-Baz later joigned the Egyptian foreign service, and was made chef de cabinet with ambassadorial rank in 1977.

In 1990, he was picked up in Cairo by the Egyptian secret service.

He worked in the cultural section of the Egyptian civil service from 1934 until his retirement in 1971.

He remained in Egyptian service until his contract expired four years later.

He was still working for the Egyptian Civil service at the time of his death in Cairo in 1936.

In addition to his academic career, Tolba worked in the Egyptian civil service.

Atta and others, and me, too, were closely watched by Egyptian secret services because we lived in Germany.

He entered the Egyptian diplomatic service in 1956.

Mahfouz left academia and joined the Egyptian civil service, in which he continued till 1972.