The mystery of how Mossad obtained the pagers used to bomb Lebanon, killing nearly 40 and wound thousands over two days, has deepened after a British university said it never taught the woman who supplied the spy agency. 

Over two days, explosives embedded within pagers and walkie talkies detonated across Lebanon in a major gambit likely perpetrated by Israel's shadowy intelligence agency Mossad, which is believed to have created firms across Europe to make and sell the old-fashioned radio gadgets, with Mossad redesigning them to contain lethal amounts of PETN explosive with a miniature detonator.

Hungarian company BAC Consulting, said to have supplied the pagers, was really part of an Israeli front, according to three intelligence officers spoken to by the New York Times. The firm was run by glamorous 'scientist' Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono who boasted of speaking seven languages and being educated in politics at the London School of Economics (LSE)and having a PhD in physics from University College London.

However, an LSE source said it did not award graduate diplomas in politics during the years in question. And the School of Oriental and African Studies was unable to confirm her claims of having studied there. But in a twist, it is understood that she did indeed gain a physics PhD from the University College London in 2007. 

American journalists who reached Barsony-Arcidiacono by phone earlier in the week said she denied knowledge of the plot saying: 'I don't make the pagers. I am just the intermediate.'