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no dares thinks. we dare to ask. i got this 8 millimeter film purely by accident. time period 963 to 65 place damascus. i don't don't know why young. i've watched it many times a man posing the monuments an old poster of the hollywood premiere of town without
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pity and a fight in a market so without present this. i had my doubts if i should waste my time on this but i came back to that film over and over again tracing a sequence of events happening in syria at that time anderson those who worked there the mood of the review. which was hidden in a deal curiosity is like a perpetual motion machine it 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 and evil villain an israeli double o. 7. i need because it's bad some. good at the one. still. 50. and no one would ever see this
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footage if it wasn't for an old acquaintance of mine but collector from st petersburg alexei marco. he has an incredible eye for n.t. . 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. so political will you know. yes there was only one word syria they gave the box as to what they say along with the own video camera they said take it we don't need to get up alone to properly. the going into my link here . oh don't don't know why young. and then. you know which you are off to waymon you partial or you feel we're here with you move and you come as you mean you're clear for our out go complaints go on the move
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there you are you feel you. are when you know our lives are pushed you know as i walked over to the show but on closer the last. clear with the will almost surely mean no. doubt and when you lost people need to take you. with you. when you needed to know one of the cool got to of course when you're bored with your moment to look you up learned it in. lushin if you were to look when she was. that's how i got these films it was handwritten on the boxes be looking and then step by step i began to unravel the story i read in an old leningrad now st petersburg phone book that once 3 people lived in that exact apartment or he's looking for 1918 his wife and their granddaughter yulia.
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my response when no longer alive so i found yulia 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 probably captured him like one on film. alone would. i mean you got that i mean you know by york you're welcome toto a cook me up on the wall you know deal because then you. will see the bag of ideal but this is going to continue to. get blown out of the strike zone by doing a below. cost just because you want to bring it into the garage. at the most damage in response to. anyone who ever moved to
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a different apartment knows it's like a natural disaster you'll certainly miss something what kind of care i want to. 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 only were just a commotion it cost us. your store cocktail or. after the war was over but he's lookin 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
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time you asked her 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 . doesn't that just thinks that it will be over the. normal sort of someone i've given the most of the most. of the. yes. 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 sponsor man in damascus as they called him in the israeli intelligence agency mossad he rented an apartment in the city center right across
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from the syrian ministry of defense headquarters as he had all the talk crosses movements at his fingertips. this is the footage that the soviet signals office a very slow key and captured on film back in 963. the crown video camera made in japan was with him throughout his entire trip. this very camera. any soviet film enthusiasm could only dream of having one. of. the leather case preserved its original state. back in 1963 bodies couldn't even imagine him he had probably caught on camera.
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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 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. there were at least $150.00 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
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intel on soviet military assistance it was his 1st task. the 2nd to collect information on syrian troops deployments. in the mid $960.00 s. multiple intelligence agencies fort in a decisive battle for syria as in the in time middle east it 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 there was even a joke at the u.s.s.r. defense ministries main intelligence directorate the number of coups in syria is an 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 the system as it is in that what
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. you do so i would the societies of it's in your mind there but you have that sloth and that's a huge in the e.u. dismay at the smith beating in your. silly game wasn't only a trial when he came to damascus with his father in the end it medved go fish really a task journalist on 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 billionaire. 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
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on the streets of damascus driven by diplomats as well as spies and military specialists serviette military specialists are a special cost not only were all of them highly experienced but they've also repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy they would know on returning all of studied history. is a bit of this month a lot 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 u.s. as the. military specialists not only trained syrian army personnel but also provided hardware maintenance. cost of the means that should be seen as
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you. still see. us survive any of this shot by a battery sloopy and also captured soviet military specialists to mustard on support that it's nice to. see you can use it to do this of civil war. and the. signal offices were of particular value bunnies 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 bushies percentage is the easiest me see the data. of bullets you can cook up go to. with them plenty of was the point that i will accept that i did ski to some of us all this that i do it's you're thinking
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it 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 dint of all spirit about him he lived in damascus under an alias and believed that he could afford not to be ashamed of odd to me or acquaintances we mean the deal is still a bit of blue it's a blow to. the post of us to chill it come. out of a specific but ups community oh you i'd say it's over them is i live but cities east seen here and you go to india and the seas can gently exceed. guth. given that when you look at east you nor your list 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 controls to seek the. correct even got them to she was a by god to them slip of the me who could have well you could see the
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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 amin 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. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you my story in 1993 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'll
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be very. very. confined within 4 gray walls the fights using. can all tell them to leave this room. seemed wrong why don't we all just all. get to shape out just because the ticket and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. because you lose no one in the world but that it could mean the illusion of team guy me get the pool machine and give them a little plug each boost overcome with the fun was due to. start any good.
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but i didn't put sam in choosing ssion he certainly figured out how to climb the career ladder to get out in the war so listen because notion of bust as it was emotional because and. he's giving it a go what got it he started staccato making good use to keep going to assume you don't believe he has to. cone 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 yeah yeah but that was a good start you can use them about on the almost done just that 7 but he didn't consent 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
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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 her office community nobody at the bushes just below your cup of syria but at the start treaty distill it and that's who's q i could set up for you scott to hook up with a cousin but i'm a bit stupid to commute to superman nationally but i started to share c.d.'s but the movie store. you studio and you put in my dish store minutes away one is from susan a friend susan young which i knew would have to go out of the medical bunkum you are up 63 out of 6 dogs. which i don't think you could live would stuart about just sit with numb somebody sick. seasick but don't study just compute that bit within the story that will change and see is the
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redskins'. he's there right now there's a bush it's more that is there any meat but on the system by the sea even the those new which would be that even am a cuckoo in the sun is nice and spoke with the question must be decoded slimmy to see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. see me 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 we see these liberace are usually good it's easy i will give you but he take you to the who 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 made by yet see that never mind the us on the top and formal war criminals who had ended up in syria tried to exploit this discord. and they were the main targets of israeli intelligence. all over the wont including
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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 amount immediately after the arrest of 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. 2 years after the trial and the execution of eichmann in time of eve in one cohen found throughout america in damascus he lived under the alias of or sorry you cohen notified tel aviv tomorrow
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i'm going to resign rio it's going to. brazil rio is friends right about. it's going to. back this one minute a weapon of choice was a letter bomb cohen prepared his gift for former execution of friends around america but the assassination attempt failed something went wrong there was only a small pop on the bill that iranian but it's a good name with that of a look at the congo below him yet. most of the troika sees of that also think that some would say that some say that this particular mission brought the mossad agent in damascus eli cohen under 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
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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 friends with the u.s. as. kratom a. 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 buddies 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 again. does this look
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in the good of the oh yeah. that i was going to screw into the movie. because of. that and of course. the day feel like oh i'm an israeli spy started and 30 am and 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. he was at the bus which dealer that's going to. be
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a. me. too that those are so you had in the past so i want to. see in them. given that i know stuff that uses. but stomach would take a thought in this but it's in the mushroom his own symptom budget which can go although we'll get in those debates. and as the. other get the feel of the full story come. a brazil win them to them chill you can go but it's obvious in the considered thought out up ski when conan passed intelligence to tel aviv that 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 state since you can keep the by the police hold that. opinion. by the outspoken you cannot go in the car. it was
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january 19th 65 when israeli agents in mikoyan was tracked by intelligence services . which is noted of course in the wrong city. when the inertia. is about old mrs purcell east. doesn't go in your butcher and across the sami but you can eat. a cigar and a souse of the liquid that you can use meetings community that mr their shoes are. just the studio soldiers and several plain clothes men entered cohen's 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 serious about will do when you. will a priest on the bumper of the cities because. he was going to use a tear lose it got to the british c.d.'s an image that nash and you could throw in
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the queue. idea with a sim. i knew to insist the pursuits the only national. yes 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 but 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 nobody born the cousin e. e. solicits with the such beauty. he wore seal
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it was so this that's not. mean. that's that's and that the ghost of blue the skies of you do give species it was smitten it doesn't edition. film your store commune would sue but it was all the robot you said buy me a system should and you can see when you go in the buy these to buy drums but what they. did in 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 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.
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much but he's looking wrongs 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. cd a star let him in the boat i missed them gear so yes he said use. him it's we've got so much muscle unica here. by see didn't look very at machinery of loser let's go to what i knew this was a new post these committees 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 since got almost
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delusional because of on your piece that you see these awful go whew schemes will nick authorities who cheated by yelling about human. but it's that these each i see snap us but don't see any syria use they had before that it was covered still it is 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 s. that old film poster from barry's lukins tapes kept popping up in my. town without pity. that was what damascus had become for israeli spy like oh.
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the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who has been suffering the most in this almost undoubtedly long conflict regular syrian people. need is more than when your wife of 20 years if you look at this way. 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 national just like it's.
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