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he once invited me to his antique shop to show some of the boxes he caught from an apartment on trial. and it's simple the owners were getting rid of things they didn't need. so all of your money and there was only one would syria they gave the boxes to us they say along with the own video camera they said take it we don't need to get up long to properly. joining cue my link here. i don't dump their y. young. and their. floor you know which you are off the way many partial or you see order which you move to new cones you have in your clear for a bar out complaints go on them over the last. hour when you know them all could use a bra is the post you know as i walked over to the show but on closer last. it's clear with the will almost surely meaning no. doubt and when you lost people almost
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need to take you. with you. when you we didn't know one of the cool could do a poor job when you're bored but your moment to look you up learned it and find your own worth lushin if you were like 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 leningrad now some petersburg phone book that once 3 people lived in that exact apartment or he's looking for 1918 his wife zoe and their granddaughter yulia. my responses were 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 eli cohen on film.
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alone would i agreed you. ringback got that i mean you know by york york i thought oh well cook me up on the wall you know which you know neal because then you control growth coming very little gholston doesn't control the drug of ideal but this is going to continue. you're going to get this try some of that boom below. cost just as that you were being handed. at them of 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 kind of. like i have
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a bolo. i 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. as you all and i still see things they were just a commotion it cost us was the thing even you know the store cocktail or. after the war was a nice 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'm about jumping in also thank god that it's. that
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subsisting statement would be a little above all of the misunderstandings to smear the book that's. what it was so i didn't i wasn't behind your mozambique war but i think you just knew that by not going through this. post it would get in the way oh yeah you're. just like i missed the storm deal with me that's what we're trying to find out. looking came to damascus just at the time when who've been shown cohen commonly known as even like 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 he had all the talk crosses movements at his fingertips. this is the footage that the soviet signals office
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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. any soviet film enthusiastic could dream of having won. 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 on the side. if union doesn't go public on either about the scale of assistance or
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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 advisors 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 4th in
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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 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 to. be. in march 963 the baath party came to power in 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 so i would the society's an a because it's a new mindset but you have that sloth and that's a huge you know to dismiss dismay. silicate
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wasn't only a child when he came to damascus with his father and he ended medved go officially a task 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. i do believe poets of america i need be opposed to put on say i'm going to. buy the movie. at the billionaire so using. 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've also
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repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy they would know on returning all of studied history. is a bit of this month a lot of the gets into. their number and speciality were established by the local come out of 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. the. military specialists not only trained syrian army personnel but also provided hardware maintenance. cost of the means to cheat the you see as you. see. i don't give it to us via been in this shop by that he's loopy and also accounted soviet military specialists in less than sympathetic sneeze. yes i mean.
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you can use it to do this of civil war some years ago some use of the state yes he said he smoothed the letter but signal offices were of particular value buddies 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 3 of a list to do but she's been said he's the easy at me seba. of bullets you could 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. 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 damascus under an alias and believed that he could afford not to be ashamed of either me or acquaintances we
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mean delist. bloods a blow to. the post of us to come. but ups community oh you i'd say it's all of them is i live by cities each seen here when you go to india in the seas compendia. guth be. given that when will you. nor your lists of got on the moon as it was at the top skinny of what it will be at the root on snow in the flip them yes she does the patrols to see the. rest even got the photos and she was a by god to them slip of the me who could have well. since. she 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
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the wake of the match 963 revolution this man returned to his homeland and became president of syria cohen was in russia. joining me everything on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. because you lose no one in the world but that it could mean the illusion of team guy me get the pool machine to give them a little plug each boost overcome with the fun was due to. start any good it's. putting it in the puts i mean she does engine she certainly figured out how
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to climb the career ladder to get out here war so listen because notion of buses it was emotional because and. he's giving it a go what got it you started staccato making good use to keep going to assume you don't believe it was to. 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 yeah yeah but that was a good start you can use them about all in the almost done just that 70 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 eliminate german war criminals. after world war 2 they fled europe and settled in
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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 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 sort of it's got to hook up with a question but i'm a bit stupid to commute to superman nationally but i started to share c.d.'s but the most 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 up 6th on. which i do feel good would stuart about just minutes it move with numb somebody 6. cities to. study just compute that bit within a story that will change and see is that aids good. because that right now there's
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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 the substance spoke with the question must be decoded slimmy to see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. 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 see double to try and google we see these move put out see i used to go out it's easy i will give you but he took you to do he could obviously flip easy a look to see and use my smug receive in there with the will so shows any particular of what they see any reason even he stood out in a poignant sit down never mind about 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 un
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sort of the my head of wills at the time they would not when you start a near you believe got the covering caught on the. hello friends right i'm 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 right amount participated in developing the madagascar plan to resettle jews from europe they were involved in killing people in the gas chambers. 2 years on after the trial and execution of eichmann in tel aviv in one cohen 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 it's going to. brazil rio is friends right about. it's
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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. thought about look at the below him yet. most of the troika sees it is that those at the moment 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 a fierce opponent of israel which made him a friend of syria but the western blocks interests ran counter to the official
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position of damascus which was seeking or approach went with the u.s. as. khurana. i was later released on medical grounds and he voluntarily surrendered to the off arteries 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 would call it see it in slow motion. and begin. the school of
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the good of the oh yeah. that i was going to screw into the who didn't love us and we could have. that in the course of. 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 contain 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 with the bus what's the deal that's going to. be a. me. too that those are so you had in the past someone to.
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see in them. if you did i know that you. but stomach would take a thought in this but it's in the mushroom his alone symptom but the which can go on no. thank you ma'am i don't need to mean you're good i'll get a feel or so from the story come. a brazil win them to them sure you can go but it's obvious in the considered to the arab 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 us that since you can keep the by the police who are that. canal in the dark. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agents in like oh i
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was tracked by intelligence services. which just landed of course in the wrong city. it was when the inertia. is about old mrs purcell east. doesn't go in your butcher and across the semi but you can eat. a cigar when you molly or. whether or not 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 the spoke. about to do in your grill a priest on the bumper the cities because. he was going to use a deer lose it got to the british c.d.'s an image that machine you can store nikki . giovanni they seem. easy the new putting snow
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boots the only national. that i knew. kong 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 paid the various states into seated on his behalf the queen of the united kingdom and the pope among them but syrian all pharmacies 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 in the cousin e. e. solicits look at this it's booty. he wore seal
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it was so this that's not. mean. does that's and that the ghost of blue the skies of you do give species you just might need a dozen cities to. boom your store commune would sue but it was overdue said amy a just i'm sure then you can see when you go in the buy these to buy domes 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 scoured the city of course not. by its bodies lukin was in damascus at that time people formed his duties as
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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 miss them gear so yes he said use the shoe. in minutes we would say you could hear. by see didn't you book 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 know deep this is just so nice that this is just in scott almost delusional because of a new piece that you see these a few koku schemes will nick authorities who cheated but yelling about you in the
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biz. but it's that these each eye sees the bus but don't see any syria use the use of that go to school till it is sort of a sore biased on the socialists i was there when in number. one i was piecing together the course of events from the mid 960 s. that old film poster from various lukins tapes kept popping up in my head. 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 are demanding the shut down of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no claire 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 moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy is power live with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on r.t. . is your media a reflection of reality.
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in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being legs up. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. were the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who has been suffering the most in this almost and danny and long conflict regular syrian people. it's more than the menu my for many years you know the strangest
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thing i could see everything with my own eyes and hear the stories of its residents one group in particular russian wives of syrian man the apostles and. they were pleased to look up to it sings nationalist words. just 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 war is inflation. was a pandemic no certainly no borders i'm just blind to nationalities. but . as americans we don't come with the we don't have the facts in the world beats to be. judged. come in every crisis
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with this system to modern times we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is great the response has been much so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. i can't show you my face but i'm going to tell you must story 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 his son of a $23.00. confined
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within 4 gray walls he fights using. turn to help him to leave this room. let's come together impeach the president not just about impeachment anymore it's about canceling it he is a clear and present danger to the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach president trump up to angry debate well many on the floor can't wait to see the back of their mother's wall this dangerousness said trying to simply quote cancel his views. as snapshots becomes the latest permanently palin president from succumb to follow online messaging giant twitter has slammed the african state of uganda for blocking social media folk receive it well we'll look at that later. and push back against a top british screenwriters.

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