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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 with his turn of the 23. but to be. confined within 4 gray walls he fights using. turned on to help him to leave defense room. 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 and all poster of the hollywood premiere of town without
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pity and a fight in a minute so without versus. 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 the wood on the bridge you're. going to continue going out you'll see neil 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 cohen a super spy who 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.
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and no one would ever see this footage if it wasn't for an old acquaintance of mine but collected from some pieces good 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 to. be flown with our old guy. so clearly. there was only one would syria they gave the boxes to they say along with the own video camera they said take it we don't need to get up long to properly. going into my link here. i don't go there why young. and then. you know which you are off to waymon you partial or you feel we're here with you move when you come here immediately or for
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a bar out on the move there you are the people you. are when you know. you know what of the show but on closer the last. clear with the do it really move. on and when you lost people need to take you. with you. when you needed to know one of the cool got to approach when you're bored with your moment to look you up and learned move on your own work. and if you were to look 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
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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 him like one on film. because there's old me and i didn't mean you know by you're welcome toto a cook me up on the wall you know deal because then you. got a very little gold in the bag of 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 in the garage of the bush. at the most damage in response to.
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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. 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 promotional cost plus. you know 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 don't touch the question. of the locals but i'm about jumping in also thank god that it. didn't that's a cop just thinks that it will be over the. normal sort of someone i've given the most of your most to make me want. to just move on. you know like this. was all. young insidious like i just lost on me 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
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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 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. 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 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 or about the scale of assistance or 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 there were at least 150 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 in 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 troop deployments. in the mid 1960 s. multiple intelligence agencies fort 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
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a victory of soviet intelligence. but it set up so the system as it is in the what . you do so i would the society's an a but it's a minor but you have that sloth and that's a huge in the e.u. dismay at the smith meeting in your. plans to disclose. silicon a wasn't only a child when he came to damascus with his father leonid mcgill officially a task. analyst on 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. poets of america i need to post if put on say i'm going to. buy the movie. at the billionaire same. syria did not give up on the blessings of western civilization
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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 also repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy they would know on returning all of soviet history. he said he's. going to notice a bit of this month lot of that he 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 with maintenance. of the means to cheat the e.c.
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is dumb enough to. see. us survive any of this shot by a very sloopy and also captured soviet military specialists can muster and support that it's nice to. get it through this of civil war was a boon to the state yes he said smoothly a little but i get sick no offices where a particular value bunnies lukian worked. in an area that turned out to be quite vulnerable for 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 who do but she's been said he's the e-mail me see the data. of bullets you could go to. with them plenty of was the point that i'm this is that i the ski to
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some of us all this that i do 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 dead devil spirit about him he lived in damascus under an alias and believed that he could afford not to be ashamed of are the means or acquaintances we mean the deal is still a bit of blue it's a blow to. the post of us to 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 he's condemned. google earth. 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 newbie you. know even the flip them yes she does the patrols to seek the. caress even got them to who
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she was about he had seen him slip on the knee who couldn't vote we could see. 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 minus 963 revolution this man returned to his homeland and became president of syria cohen was rushed. 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 and. the war in syria has lasted longer than world war 2. who has been suffering the most in this almost
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a decade long conflict regular syrian people. need is more than when your wife of 20 years you know the strangest 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. they were pleased to look up to his nationalist one needs. to place no true taste. of traits or that you're being silenced stooge just your take is our cold war with beast you call the fun not fight fight julian's going to play when they're all stupid racists.
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because you lose no on the whole but that it could mean the illusion of the guy the good the poor mushroom. cloud the excuse that will come with a plan was to get the. good. but if you didn't put semir to dissension pieces me figured out how to climb the career ladder to get out. of war so listen because notion of buses it was. notion because and. he's giving it a go what god got it he said it's the got to take a good used to keep those who don't believe it was took. 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 78 but he
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didn't consider probably no other spy in the world had reached such heights. there was yet another job that israel's mossad 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 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 set up for 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 mind of store minutes away when his friends who's an offense was the youngest child you would have to go out of the medical bunk than you are up 63 out of 6 that on. which i do feel good would
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stuart about just sit with numb somebody 6. cities to. study just compute that bit within a story that will change and see is the redskins'. because that 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 i am a cuckoo in the sun is the substance spoke with the question must be difficult to see me do see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. just mistreated so see me if you instead i'm good you can but i guess you missed in that's why the buddha and mr herder when you know some of those you see double trying to do good misdeeds moved it out i used to go out it's easy i will give you but he took you to do it as he fled easy a look to see and use my smugly see when they're done with it the bill so shows any
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particular of what c.n. use and even east that i was 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 wont including syria for own side of the might have wills that which they would not when you start a near you believe got the covering call from the. a low front threat of not immediately after the arrest of former nazi and i for. 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
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execution of eichmann in time of eve in line cohen found throughout america in damascus he lived under the alias of 1st sario cohen notified tel aviv tomorrow i'm going to resign rio it's going to. brazil rio is friends right about. it's going to . back me one minute 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 bill that iranian good bye 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 at the moment that some would say that some say that this particular mission brought the mossad agent in damascus eli cohen on the close scrutiny of the syrian counterintelligence service at least one of the clues pointed to him but there was
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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. as. khurana. it was later released on medical grounds and he voluntarily surrendered to the off arteries of the federal republic of germany a soviet officer signalman berries lucan saw this intricately woven plot on unraveling while he was stationed in sudan to each other at some point and considering they lived there for about 3 years there is 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 bodies lukian turned his camera on and he is who in court let's see it in slow motion.
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and again. business law of the study good at the oh yeah we'll let you know. that i was going to screw into the who give us a because of. that in a court of. 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 must 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 pretty close attention that
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syria could use to annihilate israel and vice versa. the bus routes deal that's going to. be a. me. too that those are so you would in the past. 15 years seen them. given that i know stuff that uses the. stomach in this but it's the mushroom his own symptom. a deal which can go although we'll begin those debates thank you ma'am that is the. get the feel of the phone story come. a brazil win them to them chill you can go but it's the considered to the 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.
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cannot go in the dark. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agents in mikoyan was tracked by intelligence services. which is now under a court in the wrong city. it was in the national. this is about all mr spitzer least. those when you go in your butcher and across the sami but you're going to. see carnage when you myler souza the car that you can it's meeting similar to that mr their shoes are. just the studio soldiers and several plain clothes men entered curran's apartment right when he was using a radio to transmit some messages to tel aviv cohen was caught red handed. he was a sickly in this bomb a shoe i'm about to do when your girl
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a priest on the bumper the cities can. use a tear lose it got to the british c.d.'s an initial question you can throw in the queue in the over they seem. easy the new putting snow boots the only national. understood idea. 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 this day in the close of the murder. mysteries of nobody born the
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cousin e. e. elicits. the such beauty. you wore it was so this that's not. mean. does that's and that the worst of blue just because of you do give species it was not needed because in addition. to me your store commission would school but it was overdue to buy me a system should i need insulin 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 knew 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. bodies looking was in damascus at that time people formed his duties as a military signalman and his tour in syria and to deny it in 65 the year that cohen could become a serious adverse 3 for syria and this. union was executed. cd a star let him in the wood i miss them so yes he said use. him it's we've got so much muscle you can get here. by sea didn't you book a very good machine of loser let's go to what i knew this. was
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a new post this committee just keep this dinny to sit on the what have you to do this it's just been so nice that this is just him. because of on your piece that you see these of. but young of argument because you know going in. but it's that piece which i seize campus but don't see any cd here you can use that you'd both go to school which religion is sort of a sore biased on the socialists i was there that you know used to serious stuff while 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 head. town without pity . that was what damascus had become for israeli spy be like own.
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i can't show you my face but i'm going to tell you my story in 9093 this man was sentenced to death 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 that week with his son of a 23. i don't doubt that the verb to be but it had been. confined within 4 gray walls the front it's using. trying to help him to leave dense room.
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