Profile of a spymaster: Gen Abbas Kamel, chief of Egpytian General Intelligence Service a.k.a the Mukhabarat

General Abbas Kamel, 62, the president’s secrets keeper and the closest person to him, is the 26th president of General Intelligence, one of the so-called sovereign agencies alongside Military Intelligence and the National Security Services.

The name Kamel appeared for the first time in October 2013 during an interview with then Defence Minister Abdul Fa…