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so all of your money and there was only one word syria they gave the boxes to us they say along with the own video camera they said take it we don't need it it goes up long to properly. going into my link here. i don't don't know why young wal-mart and their. store you know which you are off to or a mini bar floor you see order which you move in you comments you need your clear for a bar out of complaints quantum of your you know. who you are when you know. the post you know and i walked over to the show and flown closer while i was. clear with the will almost surely mean you know. when you lost people need to take you. with you. we knew we needed to know one of the cool kids to approach when you're bored with your moma will you
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be applauded move on your. newark winches. that's how i got these films it was handwritten on the boxes the looking and then step by step i began to unravel the story i read in an old leningrad now some petersburg phone book that once 3 people lived in that exact apartment or he's looking for 1918 his wife and their granddaughter yulia. my responses were no longer alive so i found you only in this country on social networks and that was the 1st piece of the puzzle that was certainly barry's lukin the man that had taken the footage of all damascus and had probably captured him like one on film.
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there's old me and. thought of me you know by york york i thought overcook me up on the wall you know bill because then you. got a very little gold. we'll see the bag of ideal but this is going to continue to. get blown out of the strike zone by boom below. cost just because you want to bring into the garage. at the most damage in response to. anyone who ever moved to a different apartment knows it's like a natural disaster you'll certainly miss something what kind of care i was that. i could have a bolo. found lukins commendation missed on the ministry of defense website
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you only confirms that her grandfather had been in the military he'd been through the war and was awarded the order of the red star 3 times. and the of all. things they were just a commotion it cost us. the store cocktail or. after the war was over but he's looking and graduated from the military academy in leningrad and was sent to syria in the 1960 s. he became a high caliber professional in the area of military communication systems but every time you asked a grandfather about his time in syria he don't touch the question when your 3 children get on the hop but i'm about jumping in also thank god that it. didn't that's a cop just thinks that it will be over the. normal sort of someone i've given the most i'm thinking i feel my. but i. just know that i
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know my. focus and it will get in the way. insidious like i just lost on me that's what we're trying to find out. looking came to damascus just at the time when who ben showed cohen commonly known as eli cohen had been working there a professional spine man in damascus as they called him in the israeli intelligence agency mossad he rented an apartment in the city center right across from the syrian ministry of defense headquarters he had all the talk process movements at his fingertips. this is the footage that the soviet signals office a very slow key and captured on film back in 1963. the crown video camera made in japan was with him throughout his entire trip. this very camera.
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any soviet film enthusiasm could dream of having won. the leather case preserved its original stage. back in 1963 bodies couldn't even imagine him he had probably caught on camera. but he's looking his 45 years old doc suit bras tie clip and watches no insignia the soviet union doesn't go public on either or about the scale of assistance of all types of specialists and sends in these are lukins colleagues soviet offices the u.s.s.r. is steady. expanding its military assistance to syria by 963 there were at least
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150 military advisers and the israeli intelligence agency mossad knew about the presence of bodies looking and other specialists in syria as soon as they arrived. we have to ask for the last 50 people. israeli intelligence agents being like cohen did his job flawlessly and was repeatedly praised by his superiors for reporting intel on soviet military assistance it was his 1st task. the 2nd to collect information on syrian troop deployments. in the mid $960.00 s. multiple intelligence agencies fort in a decisive battle for syria as in the entire middle east there was an active redistribution of the spheres of influence between the west and the warsaw pact
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countries serious to the pot being some kind of tug of war between the sides who's followed one after another in quick succession and there was even a joke at the u.s.s.r. defense ministries main intelligence directorate the number of coups in syria is and plus one meaning that no one knew when the next 2 would happen. in march $963.00 the baath party came to power and syria ultimately became a soviet ally it was partially a victory of soviet intelligence. but it set up so says of us i don't know what. you do so i woulda said he's about as it's a minor but he had that sloth and that's a huge in the e.u. to dismiss smith senior. silicate wasn't only a trial when he came to damascus with his father in the end it. medved go
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officially a tast journalist an officially a soviet intelligence operatives it was his father a soviet spy from whom he got his 1st knowledge about syria it's now possible to speak publicly about it i mean one of the senior. poets of america i need a new post of put on say i'm going to. buy the movie. at the billionaires however syria did not give up on the blessings of western civilization that is clearly seen in bonnie's lukins footage there were american british and french cars on the streets of damascus driven by diplomats as well as spies and military specialists soviet military specialists are a special cost not only were all of them highly experienced but they'd also repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy they would know on return data all of studied history. said he states you can get. a bit of this
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much thought of the goods into. their number and speciality were established by the local come out the salaries were ample for that time from $1000.00 up to $1200.00 a month that's $10.00 to $12.00 times higher than the soviet average in 6 months you could buy the most prestigious car in the us as the. military specialists not only trained syrian army personnel but also provided hardware maintenance. can you give thanks to the research at the e.c. is. still didn't see. us survive any this shot by a very sloopy and also captured soviet military specialists can muster and support that it's nice to. get it through this of civil war was a boon to the state yes he said the smooth deal about signal offices were put to kill. bunny's lukian worked in an area that turned out to be quite vulnerable to
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syria. now it's hard to tell how much he was involved in u.s.s.r. intelligence operations but it's perfectly clear that he was around the soviet spies and was proficiency in transmit a signal into sections of a list who do bushies percentage is the easy it needs to be done. of bullets you could go to. with them plenty of was the point that all the things that i did ski to some of us all this that i do. he didn't got that of course a lie cohen tried to be as discreet as possible but at the same time there was an undeniably did evil spirit about him he lived in damascus under an alias and believed that he could afford not to be ashamed of are the means or acquaintances we mean the deal is still a victim blue it's a blow to. the post of us to come. out of
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a specific but ups community oh you i'd say it's all of them is i live by cities each seen here and you go to india in the. google earth. given that when you look at east you know all the yarn lists of cattle in the us it was at the top skinny of the total newbie you. know even the flip them yes she does the patrols to see the. rest even got the photos she was about he had seen him slip on the knee who could have well you could see the. he had begun to trade his powers to the offices of senior syrian officials back in faraway argentina cohen relied on a syrian military attack i mean fans he'd made friends with him in buenos aires in the wake of the match 963 revolution this man returned to his homeland and became.
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as a denver syria cohen was right to. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who has been suffering the most there's almost no doubt in a long conflict regular syrian people. need is more than when your wife of 20 years you'll be the same. i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories or it's arrested one group in particular russian wives of syrian man.
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because they were opposed to look up to it's in the nationalist world it's. as the trump presidency comes to an end the country stares into a political abyss divisions are different now than ever before and dialogue is almost nonexistent talk of compromise is deemed to be treasonous by many this will hardly change on january 20. but i'm going to teach you must store in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week which is the end of the 23 years. i doubt that i did. it i'd be. confined within 4 grey walls the fights using
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hot turn all to help him to leave death row. because there was no oil in the world but that it could mean the illusion the guy on the edge of the pool was sure to flood the excuse that will come with the foam which hit the. started a good. idea in the puts i mean she was in sion she certainly figured out how to climb the career ladder to get out in the war so listen because the ocean opposes it was emotional because and. he's giving it a go what god got it he said it's the got to take a good used to keep those who don't believe it was took. cohen was close to the highest authorities of syria as evidenced by this famous picture of him standing on
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the roof of the prime minister's residence one more could this teach would have been yeah yeah but that was a good start you can use them about all in the almost done just that 7 people he didn't consider probably no other spy in the world had reached such heights. there was yet another job israel's mossad tossed in lycoming with to expose and eliminate german war criminals. after world war 2 they fled europe and settled in the usa canada great britain and the middle east syria in particular. just to show that because there's a poem in the news story. of our ups community nobody at the bushes your cup of syria but at the start treaty distill it and that's who's q i could serve you scott who could be the cousin but i'm a bit stupid to commute to superman nationally but i started to share c.d.'s but the movie store where you studio and you put your my dish store minutes away when
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his friends who's in our friends who's a young musician you would have to go out of the medical bunkum you are up 63 up 6th on. that i don't know if you could would stuart about just sit with numb somebody. sees it but don't study just compute that bit within the story that will change and see is the redskins'. he said right now there's a bush it's more that is there any meat but on the system by the see even the those new which would be the key but he can essentially social spoke with the question must be difficult to see me to see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. dismissed so see me but if you instead i'm good you could but i guess you missed in that's why the buddha and mr herder when you know some of those you seemed never to try and google misdeeds liberace i used to go out it's easy i will give you but he
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take you to do he could of us he fled he dia lucianne use my be some ugly see when there at the will so shows any particular of what c.n. use and even east but i was in a bind yet see that never mind about on the top and form a war criminals who had ended up in syria try to exploit this discord. and they were the main targets of israeli intelligence. all over the world including syria for and some of the might have wills that which they would not when you start a near you believe the covering call from the. a lot of fronts right of not immediately after the arrest a former nazi and friend. secretly took hofmann out of argentina where he lived under an assumed name to tel aviv for a show trial it was then the largest victory for israeli intelligence. during world war 2 i when together with participated in developing the madagascar
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plan to resettle jews from europe they were involved in killing people in the gas chambers. 2 years after the trial and execution of eichmann in tel aviv in one cohen found throughout america in damascus he lived under the family a superstar you cohen notified tel aviv tomorrow i'm going to resign rio it's going to. brazil rio is friends right about. it's going to. back them one minute a weapon of choice was a letter bomb callen prepared his gift for former execution of friends around america but the assassination attempt failed something went wrong there was only a small pop and belittling and it's a good bit of a law to assert that we're below them yet. most of the troika sees it is that those at the moment that some would say that some say that this particular mission
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brought the mossad agent in damascus eli cohen on the close scrutiny of the syrian counterintelligence service at least one of the clues pointed to him but there was no direct evidence tying him to the attempt as to run america he was arrested before the end of $963.00 in damascus on charges of spying for west germany even though he was a fierce opponent of israel which made him a friend of syria but the western blocks interests ran counter to the official position of damascus which was seeking or approach went with the u.s. as. kratom a. it was later released on medical grounds and he voluntarily surrendered to the off artes of the federal republic of germany a soviet officer signalman batteries lucan so this intricately woven plot on unraveling while he was stationed in syria in the center of damascus was where all our protagonist screwed run into each other at some point and considering they lived there for about 3 years there's
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a very good chance that it indeed happened. actually the own town was where bodies lukin used most of his 8 millimeter films dog. and then one day but he's lucky and turned his camera on and he is who of course see it in slow motion. and again. is a school of the good of the oh yeah. is that i was going to school in the. us so we could have. that in the course of. the day feel like oh i'm an israeli spy started it and 30 am he turned on the radio to listen to some arab tunes that were played by request it meant that mossad transmitted data related to a new mission the introduction to every song contain parts of the code.
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his greatest achievement was passing classified information about the position of the syrian troops on the golan heights this is the case in that syria could use to annihilate israel and vice versa. he was with the bus which dealer couldn't. do that those are so you had in the past so i want to. see in them. given that i know stuff that uses. stomach would take a thought in this but it's in the mushroom his own symptom budget which can go although we'll begin those debates. as the. get out get the feel of the full story come. a brazil win them to them chill and you can go but it's obvious you know considered to the arab ski when cohen passed intelligence to tel
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aviv it caused radio interference for the radio listeners in his neighborhood the syrian secret service started getting complaints from staff members of nearby embassies cities of. the us that since you can give the by the police hold it. in the in the cock. it was january 965 when israeli agents in like oh it was tracked by intelligence services. which is now under a court in the ring city. when the national. is about to mr spitzer least. when you go in your butcher and across the sami but you can eat. a cigar and a. liquid that you can use meetings community that mr their shoes are. just the studio soldiers and several plain clothes men entered current's apartment
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right when he was using a radio to transmit some messages to tel aviv karmas quarter red handed. he was a sickly in this bomb a shoe i'm about to do when you're a little priest on the bumper of the cities could. use a tear lose it got to the body c.d.'s an image that machine you can store in the queue in idea with a sim. the new person is just the pursuits the only nasheed the. just that i knew. cohen was sentenced to capital punishment by hanging as someone who had caused irreparable damage to syria in israel he's held as a hero his country for his extradition they used all diplomatic means possible heads of various states into seated on his behalf the queen of the united kingdom
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and the pope among them but syrian all therapies were adamant this was war and cohen was an enemy of syria. his execution in damascus was broadcast live. cool in the by these then the close of the murder. mysteries of the noble boy in the cousin e. e. solicits look at this it's booty. he wore seal it was so this that's not. mean. does that's and that the ghost of blue the skies of you do give species to the smith needs doesn't need to. bloom your store commune would school but it does all that well but you said. the study should then you can see when you go in the buy these to buy domes but more they. put in the coffin with the spines body was taken to an unknown destination israel
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has been trying to repatriate his remains ever since. there's no direct evidence that bodies that can personally played a part in exposing cohen that it was he who narrowed down the area where the israeli spy was found that he was in the car that scoured the city of course not. much but he's looking ones in damascus at that time people formed his duties as a military signalman and his tour in syria and to deny i didn't see. 5 the year that cohen become a serious adverse 3 for syria and the soviet union was executed. him
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in the book i missed them here so yes he said use. the island in minutes we would say you could hear. by see didn't it will be very atmosphere of loser let's go to what i knew this was a new post these committees just keep these do you need to see it and i would have you do this it's just been so nice that this is just in scott almost delusional because of on your piece that you see these of who go whew ski sure nick. but yelling about you in the biz. but it's that these each eye sees campus but don't see any syria use that you had before there was covert iligan it's sort of a sore biased on the socialists i was there that enough to see that stuff while i was piecing together the course of events from the mid $960.00 s. that old film poster from barry's lukins tapes kept popping up in my. town without
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by the way. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who has been suffering the most in this almost and daniel long conflict regular syrian people. need is more than when you might. i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man. they were opposed to look up to his nationalist maybe it's.
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best to others but survival guide book stacie just like all the stored safely at least. he should know there are you going to get it back. after. all it's no good repatriations look at the us a 70. philip a separate kaiser board. nuclear become a battleground in the us in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it
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moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as are our lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways a struggle. today i'm in now in the headlines this wednesday grim footage from a german incriminatory i'm highlighting the extent of a surge in covert pandemic europe wide amid claims that the country's ignoring a huge solidarity on coronavirus vaccine purchases. you'll see what you see in the restaurant trade for a service for only i'm sure the for the food. for what you do or more no u.k. police. violators but it caught on camera apparently breaking the very rules they're trying to force. you to please join.
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