News 13 revealed recordings of conversations between then-Chief of Staff and Avichai Mandelblit, who at the time served as the Chief Military Advocate • Ashkenazi waited five days before confessing that the fake document intended to discredit Defense Minister Barak was in his hands.

• Ashkenazi and Mandelblit // Photos: Yossi Seliger, Coco

Maj. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi waited five days before confessing to former Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein that the fake document in the Harpaz affair was in his possession, this evening (Sunday) was revealed on recordings first played in News 13.

In the recordings, Ashkenazi documented conversations he had with who was then the Chief Military Advocate, Avichai Mandelblit, who now serves as Attorney General.

According to the publication, Ashkenazi was exposed in early August 2010 to a document that allegedly contained a plan initiated by his opponent, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in order to humiliate the chief of staff before leaving Yoav Galant.

Ashkenazi presented the document in question to Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkott, and the next day it was presented in preliminary news in News 2. However, it was then discovered that the document was forged and Ashkenazi was accused by Galant's associates that he was behind the document. Until evening, it was unclear why Ashkenazi and Erez Wiener waited until we were informed of the existence of the document in their possession.

Among one of the recordings revealed this evening was a conversation between Ashkenazi and Winner on August 8 in which Ashkenazi said: "Our weakness is that we have the paper. This is our problem." Weiner replied: "Well, but you didn't take it out." Weiner added that Benny Gantz also heard about the document.

"Look, if there's an investigation, I'm not going to lie. We'll have to say how the letter came from and who," Ashkenazi said.

Wiener replied: "If there is an investigation, say we deliberated and did nothing about it because we thought it was wrong."

Mendelblit, who recently banned the Supreme Court from publishing talks between him and Ashkenazi Winner, is also at the center of the publication.

In a conversation documented between Wiener and Ashkenazi, the first update was that "Weinstein spoke to the PLO and is now consulting with him. His direction is a police investigation and he wants something short and purposeful ... The commander (Mandelblit) told him that we will cooperate with what is needed. There will be a police investigation. "

In response, Ashkenazi said: "Well, we will tell the truth, just fine. Tell the truth and that is ... there will be an investigation so we will say what needs to be said."

MK Ashkenazi bureau said: "These are old recordings from almost a decade ago, all of which have been released several times before. Hundreds of thousands of conversations by Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi were examined and scanned by the police, the State Comptroller and the Attorney General who decided to close the investigation file. All suspicions were initiated and disproved. Wish every public man who would listen massively to all his talks would end similarly. "