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Forced to alter his looks with plastic surgery and abandon his family and friends forever, “Wolf” has paid a high price for betraying Basque separatist group ETA. Now three decades after he went into hiding with a death sentence over his head, a film by French director Miguel Courtois has revealed the most important spy to have ever infiltrated the violent guerrilla group. “The Wolf” opens on Friday in 175 cinemas in Spain and an international release of the film, which gets its title from Mikel Lejarza’s code name, is planned for later this year. Lejarza toppled ETA’s entire leadership in 1975 after three years in an undercover operation that led to 150 arrests and changed his life forever amid the turbulent final years of Gen. Francisco Franco’s 1939-1975 dictatorship.Full Story