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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 and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a market so without burgers it's. 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 and most of those who worked there alone what i've read. you know what you'll see neil curiosity is like a petrol 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 cohen a super spy who some consider
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a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double 07. i need because it bites them and they at the. at the one. still. 50. and 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. . 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 for a little while you manya there was only one would syria they gave the boxes to they say along with the old video camera they said take it we don't need. to pop.
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because you're going into my link here. i don't dump there while young. and there. you know which you are off to waymon you partial or you see order which you move to new cones you need a clear for a bar out of the movie or the last. hour when you know could you live the pushed you know what of the show but on closer the last. clear with the you will almost surely. know. when you lost people need to take you. with you. when you needed to know one of the cool could do a poor job when you're bored but your moment to look you up learned it from. newark when she was. 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
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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. alone would agree. that all you know. i don't think we'll see the dog of
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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 it into the garage of the bush. 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 the 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 when they were just getting
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a promotion it cost us. you know talk actual. 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 time you asked her grandfather about his time in syria he don't touch the question . of the locals but i am about jumping in also thank god that it. isn't that subsistence that it will be over the wall of. mr stephen it's just me or. someone i've given the most of the most to make me warm but i. just know that you know my. focus there will be what the young insidious the storm deal seanie that's what we're trying to. find out.
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looking came to damascus just at the time when who ben show 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 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 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 one. of.
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the leather case preserved its original state. 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 about the scale of assistance of all types of specialists that sends in these a 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 advisers of the israeli intelligence agency mossad knew about the presence of bodies looking and other specialists in the. syria as soon as
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they arrived. we have gas 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 troops deployments. in the mid $960.00 s. multiple intelligence agencies 4th 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
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and plus one meaning that no one knew when the next 2 would happen. to. be in much $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 . you do still so why would the societies because it's in your mind there but you have that sloth and that's a huge in the e.u. to dismiss dismiss the beating in your. plans to disclose the. syndicate wasn't only a trial 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 whom he got his 1st knowledge about syria it's now possible to speak publicly a. yes i mean. it's of i mean to
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be opposed to put on say i'm going to. buy the movie. at the 1000000000 that's. 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 serviette military specialists are a special cost not only were all of them highly experienced but they've also repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy there were no time in all of studied history. month a lot of the goods to do. 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
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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. the. military specialists not only trained syrian army personnel but also provided with maintenance. cost of the means to cheat the e.c. is. still the. us if i have any this shot by a better use loopy and also a captain soviet military specialists can muster on support that it's nice to. get it into this of civil war. this. signal offices were of particular value bunny's 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 the. he was around the soviet
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spies and was proficiency in transmit a signal into sections of willis who do but she's been said he's the easy at me see the data. of bullets you could go to. with them plenty of was the but out of the things that i did ski to some of us all this that i do it's you're thinking it easy put in 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 damascus under an alias and believed that he could afford not to be ashamed of od the means or acquaintances we mean jill is still a victim blood supply to. the post of us to a 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 compendia. guth.
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given that when you look at least you know all the yarn lists of cattle in the us it was at the top skinny of the total new bill but the new ones know even the flip them yes she does the patrols to seek the. caress even got them to who she was about he had seen him slip on the knee who could 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 come in oh how fans he'd made friends with him in buenos aires in the wake of the match $963.00 revolution this man returned to his homeland and became president of syria cohen was rushed to.
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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 that when your wife of 20 years you look at the strangest thing i could see everything with my own eyes and here in the stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man the apostles and. they were pleased to look up to sing as national just like it's. best talk about a word that means different things to different people depending on where you live what area you live what school you went to that word is inflation.
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because you're losing the war in the world but that it could be the illusion of the guy on the edge of the pool machine or just as a mole of blood each crystal come with a phone which gives you the. start of a good order but if you didn't put semir she was in sion she certainly figured out how to climb the career ladder pretty good out in the war so listen because notion of buses it was emotional because in the good. he's given it you go with the good at the start it's the got to make you good i used to keep going to zoom with the abilities 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
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was a good start to communities 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 way 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 boom in the news story. of what ups community nobody at the bush is just below your cup of syria but at the steady t.d.c. it that's who skew i could sort of he's got to look to the present but i'm a bit stupid to commute to superman nationally but stand his share of c.d.'s but the movie store. you studio and you put in my dish store minutes away one is from
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susan up and susan in the chenier but if the glove in the bunk them you are up 63 up 61. because i do good woods do it over just minutes it will move with enough somebody to. seize it but the home study just compute that bit within the story that will change and see is that a ski. is the right another suppose it's more that is there any meat but on the system idea she even need those new which would be that even am a cook can essentially since spoke with the question must be difficult to see need to see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. dismiss should see me if you instead i'm good you could but i missed in that's why the book wouldn't miss you could ruin your nice to do z c w trying to do good misdeeds moved it out i used to go to india. would you please
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take you to the who could of us nicoletta easy alludes to any csma smug receive in the what if the bill social owes anybody a minimum of what seeing isn't even east of us in a bun yet see that i'm on a bus on the top and form a war criminals who had ended up in syria tried to exploit this discord. and i was the main targets of israeli intelligence. all over the world including syria for inside of the myself well is that what's new what's not when used as a near you believe the covering caught on the trail of france run amok 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
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chambers. 2 years on after the trial and execution of eichmann in term of years in line cohen found throughout america in damascus he lived under the alias of 1st sario 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 a weapon of choice was a little ball cohen prepared his gift for former execution of friends around america but the assassination attempt failed something went wrong there was only a small part of the bill that iranian leader but it's a good name with that of a look at the congo below him yet. most of the troika sees it is that those are things that that some would say that some say that this particular mission brew.
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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 the right of america he was the rest to be about the western blocks interests ran counter to the official position of damascus which was seeking or approach went with the u.s. as. run a mouth and was later released on medical grounds and he voluntarily surrendered to the author of the federal republic of germany a soviet officer signalman buddies lukins told this intricately woven plot on unraveling while he was stationed in syria in the center of damascus was where all our protagonist could 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 but he's lukin used most of his 8 millimeter films dog. and then one day but he's
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lookin turned his camera on and he is who would call it see it in slow motion. and begin. the school of the good of the oh yeah. we could have. that in. 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 but 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. it's this is the key strategic location
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that syria could use to annihilate israel and vice versa. he was sort of pursuits a deal or escalate. period. in the me going suniel to that of the so you are in the past so i want to that is is that true thing you see in them. given there are no stubble a couple of the. stomach would say cut or in this but it's in the mushroom his own symptom budget which can go on no. thank you ma'am does the. obvious the feel or the full story come. of brazil when them. govern its use in the considered to the arab ski when cohen 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 she needs of. that since you can keep the by the police hold that.
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opinion. cannot go in the car. it was january 965 when israeli agents in mikoyan was tracked by intelligence services. which is now under a court in the ring city. blues when the inertia. is about to mr spitzer least. when you're butchering across the semi but you're going to. make clear they're not going to something similar to 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 court red handed.
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he was a sickly in this book. about when you got the gorilla based on the publicity is because then they said it's going to use a. new they got the british c.d.'s i mean that's when you can store in the queue you could go with a sim. i knew putting is just the. gun you're going to start on you. 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 and the pope among them plant syrian all pharmacies were adamant this was war and cohen was an enemy of syria. his execution in damascus was broadcast live.
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quinn the by this day in the close of the murder. mysteries of the nobody born the cousin e. e. bush it's no good to such beauty. you wore seal it is still just that's not good he. does not seem that the bush the blue the skies of you do give specie to us might need it because it is. booming your store commune would sue but it was all there what you said amy i was just i'm sure then you can see i'm going to buy these to buy drums but what if. then the coffin with the spines body was taken to an unknown destination israel has been trying to repatriate his remains ever since.
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there is no direct evidence that bodies lukin 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 bodies lukin was in damascus at that time he performed his duties as a military signalman and his tour in syria ended in 1965 the year that cohen could become a serious adverse 3 for syria and the soviet union was executed. see the a star let him in the with him i miss them so yes he said use. him it's we've got so much melissa you can hear. by see didn't you book
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a very it was she of loser let's go i knew. i was in a posting. this did me to see it and i would have you do this it's just been so nice that this is just him. because of on your piece that you see these. but healing of a human. but its that these each of us but don't see any. of that it. is sort of. biased on the socialists i was there that you number. one i was piecing together the course of events from the mid 19 sixties 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 like own.
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nuclear power become a battleground in the u.s. in vermont people of demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no clare 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 is it going is it
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moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional just. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on r.t. . i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must store in 9093 this man was sentenced to do. they get 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 felt that i had to be. confined within 4 grey walls the footsie was in. turn all to help him to leave this room.
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