tv Documentary RT January 14, 2021 2:30pm-3:01pm EST
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the hollywood premiere of town without pity and a fight in a mock so with outbursts. 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 would agree. on any going out which will see no real curiosity just 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 a national hero and others an evil villain an israeli double 07. i need because it's but. at the one you're still. 50. it's no one would ever see this
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footage if it wasn't for an old acquaintance of mine but 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 your money and there was only one would syria they gave the boxes to us they say along with the old video camera they said take it we don't need it. going into my link here. i would go down there why young. and then. you know which show up are off the field or a mini bar floor you see order which you move the new coalition in your clear for a. go complaints go on them over the last few people are. appealing you both who
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you are when you know them all could you fall by live the pushed you know as i walked over to the show but on closer the last. clear with the do it almost surely . no. doubt and when you lost people need to keep. up with you. when you really didn't know one of the cool could do a partial when you're bored but your moment to be applauded move 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 19 a same his wife and their granddaughter yulia. my responses were no
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longer alive so i found you in this town 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. at that i mean you know why you're welcome toto a coke me up on the wall you know because then you can show go to the ring specialist bundle gholston doesn't control. the gov idea but this is going to completely. come down you're going to get this choice going about doing a below. cost just that you want being in the garage wall of the. at the moment down with the response to. anyone
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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. 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. and the of all. things there were just a commotion it cost us who was the senior. talk actual. after the war was over but he's looking in graduated from the military academy in leningrad and was sent to syria in the 1960 s.
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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 dodged the question. of the law but i am about jumpers and you also thank god that it. isn't that subsistence that it will be over the. normal sort of someone i get in the mozambique. but i. just know that you know my. focus and i will go do what the young insidiously guy national storm deal with. 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 eli cohen had been working there a professional spine man in damascus as they called him in the israeli intelligence . so i just see mossad he rented an apartment in the city center right across from
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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. 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 says look in his 45 years old doc suit bras time 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 $963.00 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 in like cohen did his job flawlessly. and was repeatedly praised by his superiors for reporting intel
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on soviet military assistance it was his 1st task. the 2nd to connect information on syrian troops deployments. in the mid 1960 s multiple intelligence agencies 4th in a decisive battle for syria as in the entire middle east there was an active redistribution of the spears 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 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 there's just of us i don't know
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what. you do so i woulda said he's about as into pneumonia but yeah that's love and that's a huge in the e.u. to dismiss dismiss beating india. or plans to. sell again he wasn't only a child when he came to damascus with his father leonid mcgill go fish really a task 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 glamorous thing but of course in the. i knew bill approach of america i knew bill opposed to put on say i'm going to . buy the movie. at the billionaire so usually. syria did not give up on the blessings of western civilization. that is clearly seen in bonnie's
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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 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. after the need to cheat the e.c.
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is. still didn't see. us survive any of this shot by a very sleepy and also captain soviet military specialists can muster and support that it's nice. to get it through this of civil war. this. 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 the ability to do but she's been studies the me. needs of me could go to. with them plenty of. the by the ski do. some of us tell us that i do it. easy pillion got out of of course
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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 odd to me or acquaintances we mean. blood's a blow to. the post of us to teach them 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 i knew going india in this he's condemned. who if he. 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. caress even bud got them to who she was
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about he had seen him slip on the me who couldn't vote. since on the media he had begun to trade his path 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. 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. nuclear become a battleground in the u.s. government people of demanding the shut down of a local plant for my yankee is right now my focus. because it's
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a very dangerous prayer powerplant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits 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 line with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on o.t. . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront cation let it be an arms race is all off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.
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because you lose no one in the community if you lose the guy on the edge of the pool machine to give them a little plug each boost of a come with a from which to get the. start of a good. idea in the puts i mean she dissension she certainly figured out how to climb the career ladder. in the war so listen because notion of buses it was motion because in the good. he's doing it you go with the good at the statistical good i used to keep going to prove. cohen was close to the highest to far to use 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 most we've done just that 70 but he didn't consider probably no other spy in the world. had reached such heights.
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there was yet another job israel's mossad coing 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 just below your cup of syria but at the start treaty to steer that's who skew 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 mother store minutes away one is from susan a friend who's a young which i knew would have to go out of the medical bunk to me are up 63 out of 6th on. that i do feel good would story about just sit
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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's there 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 that even he can essentially social spoke with that machine must be decoded its need to see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. dismissed so 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 see double to try and do good misdeeds. i used to go to india would you buy used to kill to do who could of us in the flesh e.g. a load you see and use my smugly see when they're done with it the bill so shows any particular of what sienese and even he stood out in
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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 they were the main targets of israeli intelligence. all over the wont including syria for own side of the might have wills at the time they would not when you start a near you believe the covering call from the. trail of france 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. to use up to the trial and execution of eichmann in tel aviv in one cohen found throughout america
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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 them 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 one bill that iranian leader but it's a good name with that of a 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
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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. random. 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 lukins 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
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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. school in the. us a because of. that in the core of. the day feel like oh i'm an israeli spy started 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. his greatest achievement was passing classified information about the position of the syrian troops on the golan heights this is the case for t.v.
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station that syria could use to annihilate israel and vice versa. i just couldn't. do that those are so you would in the past. 15 years see in them. if you didn't know stuff. the. stomach would take a thought in this but it's in the mushroom his own symptom but he would come goodell although. thank you ma'am it was the. obvious the feel of the phone in story come. a brazil win them to them chill you can go but it's obvious you know considered to the arab ski when conan passed intelligence to tel aviv and 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
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police hold that. opinion. by now it's become a canal in the cock. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agents in mikoyan was tracked by intelligence services. which just landed of course in the wrong city. it was when the national. is about old mrs purcell east. doesn't go in your butcher and across the sami but you're going to. sue the car they're not going it's meeting stimulatory because that's their shoes or. 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.
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he was a sickly in this bomb a shoe 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 immediate rush and you can store nikki. giovanni they seem. easy the new touring is just not the only national. 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 paid the 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.
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quinn the by this then the close of the murder. mysteries of the noble boy in the cousin e. e. elicits a look at the switch losing. the war seal it was sold us that's not good enough. does that sum that the ghost of blue the skies of you do give specie to the smith needs but this is in addition. to me your store commune would sue but it was overdue said amy a system should then you can see when you go in the buy these to buy domes 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. there's no direct evidence that bodies that can personally played
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a part in exposing co and 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 people formed his duties as a military signal man and his tour in syria and to deny deny. 65 the year that cohen could 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. or see didn't it will be very atmosphere of
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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 delusional because of a new piece that you see these a few koku schemes will nick authorities who cheated but young of argument. that it's that these each eye sees campus but don't see any syria use their youth before it go to school which religion is 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 s. that old film poster from the recently kins tapes kept popping up in my. town without pity. that was what damascus had become for israeli spy like oh.
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