tv Documentary RT January 13, 2021 6:30am-7:01am EST
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tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at the time and most of those who worked there alone would have read. you know what you see when you know neal curiosity is like a petrol motion machine did lives on without a lunch break and then suddenly i saw him stop let's take another look now at low speed this is key like owing a super spot to some consider a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double o. 7. i need because it's. at the one. steal. it no one would ever see this footage if it wasn't for an old acquaintance of mine i collected from st petersburg alexei marco. he has an incredible eye for n.t.
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. he once invited me to his antique shop to show some of the boxes he caught from an apartment on science. it's simple the owners were getting rid of things they didn't need. 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. i don't don't know why young. and then. thought you know which you are off to go for a mini bar floor you see order with your movie and you comin here immediately or for a bar out of them over the last. hour when you know. you know as i walked over to the show blown closer all i was. clear was. to you it should be. no. doubt and when you lost people don't wish to
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nitpick you. when you we didn't know one of the cool could do a poor job when you're bored but your moment to be applauded it moves on your own more. than if you were to look 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 in this photo 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
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probably captured eli cohen on film. alone would agree to such a. cut that i mean you know by you look you'll come up on the wall you know which is you know neal because then you can show goes on today in flesh was one little girl said doesn't. also doug of ideal but this is going to continue. coming down you're going to get this tryst gone bad boom blox show. cocktail cost just as that you were going into the garage all of them of damage in the press box 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. was that.
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the. look like i have a bolo. i found lukins commendation missed on the ministry of defense website 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 getting a promotion at cost us was the thing you and your. stalker chill with. after the war was a buddies lukian graduated from the military academy in leningrad and was sent to syria in the 1960 s. she became a high caliber professional in the area of military communication systems but every time you asked her grandfather about his time in syria he dodged the question. on the locals but i'm about jumping in also thank god that it. isn't that subsistence
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that it will be over the. normal sort of someone i've given the mozambique i feel most. of the. focus there will be what the young insidiously going to deal with. that's what we're trying to find out. looking came to damascus just at the time when who been shown 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 top crosses movements his fingertips. this is the footage that the soviet
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signals officer of the recent lukian captured on film back in 1963. the crown video camera made in japan was with him throughout his entire trip. to this very camera. any soviet film enthusiasm could only dream of having won. the leather case preserved its original state. back in 1963 bodies couldn't even imagine and we had probably caught on camera. but he says look in his 45 years old doc suit ross tie clip and watches no insignia
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the soviet union doesn't go public on either about the scale of assistance or types of specialists it sends in these are lukins colleagues soviet offices the u.s.s.r. is steadily expanding its military assistance to syria by $963.00 there were at least $150.00 military advisors of 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 agent eli 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.
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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 countries serious to the pot being some kind of tug of war between the sides and coups 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 crew would happen. in march $963.00 the baath party came to power syria ultimately became a soviet ally it was partially a victory of soviet intelligence. but it set up so there's just as i don't know what. you do so i would say he's about as it's in your mind there but yeah that's love and that's a huge in the e.u.
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to dismiss the smith. or a. syndicate wasn't only a child when he came to damascus with his father leonid medved go officially a tast journalist an officially a soviet intelligence operatives it was his father a soviet spy from him he got his 1st knowledge about syria it's now possible to speak publicly about it i mean it was the senior glow of this thing but of course in the. poets of america i knew bill opposed to put on say i'm going to. buy the movie. at the billionaire same reason however syria did not give up on the blessings of western civilization that is clearly seen in bali'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
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repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy there were no time to do all of study of history. is a bit of this month a lot of the goods to do. their number and speciality were established by the local comma the salaries 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 u.s. . military specialists not only trained syrian army personnel but also provided with maintenance. of the means that should be seen as you. see. us survive any of this shot by a battery sloopy and also accounted soviet military specialists to muster and
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support that it's nice. to get it through this of. this thing yes he said he smoothed a little but signal offices were of particular value but these lukian worked in an area that turned out to be quite vulnerable to 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 interceptions the ability to do but she's been so nice the easy at me seba . of me could go to. with them plenty of. the by the ski to some of us all this. 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 dead devil spirit about him he lived in a mask. under an alias and believe that he could afford not to be ashamed of i the
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means or acquaintances we mean jill is still a victim blurts out blood to. the post of us to teach them to chill it come. out of a specific but ups community oh you i'd say it's over them is i live by cities east seen here and you go to india and the seas. in. given that when you look at east you nor your list of cattle in the us it was at the top skinny of what it will now be but the ones know even the flip them yes she does the patrols to seek the. caress even bud got the photos from us about he had seen him slip them on the mic or a can of well. since on the media he had begun to trade his past to the offices of senior syrian officials back in faraway argentina cohen relied on
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a syrian military attack come in al how 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 president of syria cohen was rushed to. the world is driven by shaped by the curse of those. slow dares thinks. we dare to ask.
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i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must door in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could charge kenny 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 that week with the scent of a $23.00. i felt that i deserved to be. confined within 4 gray walls he fights using. turn on to help him to leave this room. to lose no on in the world but that it could be within those in the dream guy on the edge of the pool most sure it is i'm a little slug each post overcome with the fun was due to. start i mean good in. putting it in the put semir she was in sion she certainly figured out how to
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climb the career ladder to get out in the war so listen because notion of course as it was emotional because in the. she's giving it a go what the good at the start it's the got to make a good use to keep going to zoom bulletins to those who cohen was close to the highest authorities of syria as evidenced by this famous picture of him standing on the roof of the prime minister's residence one more could this teach would have been your yeah but that was a good start you can use them about all in the most we've done just that 70 but he didn't concede probably no other spy in the world had reached such heights. there was yet another job israel's mossad task 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
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that because there's a poem in one your story. of what ups community nobody at the bushes your cup of syria but at the start treaty distill it 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 thought when you stood here and you put your my dish store minutes away when it's from susan i found susan in the chenier but if the glove in the medical bunk them you are up 63 out of 6 trunk. which i do feel good would stuart about just sit with numb a somebody said. cæsar but don't study just compute that bit within the story that will change and see is that aids good. because that right now there's a bush is there any meat but on the system by the sea even the those new which
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would be that even i am a cuckoo in the sun is the substance spoke with the question must be decoded slimmy to see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. dismissed so see me but if you instead i'm good you can but i see misty and that's why the buddha and mr herder when you know some of those you see double to try and do good and we see these liberace i used to go out it's easy i will give you but he take you to do he could of us and easy a look to see and use my smugly see when they're done with it the will so shows any particular of what c.n. use and even east that i was in a poignant scene that never mind about on the top and form a war criminals who had ended up in syria try to exploit this discord. and i with the main targets of israeli intelligence. all over the wont including syria for and some of them i have wills at the time they would not when you start
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a near you believe got the covering call from the. a lot of fronts right a much 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 plan to resettle jews from europe they were involved in killing people in the gas chambers. to use up to the trial and execution of eichmann in time of peace in one car and found throughout america in damascus he lived under the alias of 1st sorry you cohen notified tel of the tomorrow i'm going to resign rio it's going to. brazil rio is friends right about. it's going to. back this one minute
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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 one bullet only 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 are things that that some would say that some say that this particular mission brought the mossad agent in damascus in like oman 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 the right of 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 blocs interests ran counter to the official position of damascus which was seeking or approach went with the u.s.
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as. khurana. it was later released on medical grounds and he voluntarily surrendered to the g.'s of the federal republic of germany a soviet officer signalman batteries lukens told 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 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 begin. the school of the study good at the oh yeah. is that i
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was going to school in the. us a because of. that and of course. 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 contained parts of the code. 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. the bus routes deal that's going to. be a. me. too that there's a so you would in the past someone to. see in them. if you did i know stuff
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that uses. but stomach would take a thought in this but it's in the mushroom his own symptom but the which come goodell all know. that is the. get the feel of the phone is to already come up with a cool a brazil win them. can go but it's obvious in the he said it all out up ski when conan passed intelligence to tel 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 keep the by the police who did. those opinion. by now it's become a canal in the dark. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agents in mikoyan was tracked by intelligence services. which just learned of
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course in the ring city. it was when the national. is about old mrs purcell east. was in konya butcher and of course the sami but you're going to. require that you can use meetings community that mr their shoes are. just the studio soldiers and several plain clothes men entered collins apartment right when he was using a radio to transmit some messages to tel aviv karmas quarter red handed. he was a sickly in this promise you i'm about to do in your. little priest on the bumper the cities could. use a tear lose it got to the british media an image that machine you can store nikki. giovanni they seem. easy the new putting snow boots they really nasheed
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the. just that i knew. gone 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 and the pope among them plant syrian all therapies were adamant this was war and cohen was an enemy of syria. his execution in damascus was broadcast live. corner 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. that's that's and that the bush the blue the skies
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of you doing species it was much needed because in addition. to me your store commission would sue but it was a little bit you said to me a system should then you can see when you go in the buy these to buy drums but more that. then the coffin with the spines body was taken to an unknown destination israel has been trying to repatriate his remains ever since. there's no direct evidence that bodies mccann 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 scout the city of course not. much but he's lukin was 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
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that cohen become a serious adverse 3 for syria and the soviet union was executed on. c.d.'s the let him in the would i miss them gear so yes he said use. him it's we've got so much mr unique a year. by sea didn't you build a very atmosphere of loser let's go to what i knew this was a new post this committee just you who does 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 a new piece that you see these of who koku schemes will nick authorities who cheated by yelling about you in the biz. but it's that these huge
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icy snow boots but don't see any syria use the use of that it was related it's sort of a sore biased on the socialists i was there that in number. one i was piecing together the course of events from the mid $960.00 s. that old film poster from various lukins tapes kept popping up in my. town without pity. that was what damascus had become for israeli spy be like oh.
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the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. has been suffering the most almost and back in long conflict regular syrian people . need is more than a 1000000 wife of 20 years of your brain. 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 wanted to stoop to look up to his nationalist words. is you'll be via reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation
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