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on this edition of crossfire we have a look at trump's legacy as president of the united states as our politics are so divided we shouldn't be surprised if there are multiple legacies depending on how you view trump there also can be no doubt he changed america and the president. 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 mock 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 those who worked there a moment on the review. which will 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 0 on 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 you're still.
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15. and no one would ever see this 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 all of their little. there was only one would syria they gave the boxes to the next thing along with the own video camera they said take it we don't need. the joining queue 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 order which you move in you comments you mean you're clear for
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a bar out of the movie or the last. hour when you know our lives are pushed you know what of the show but on closer the last . clear with the you will almost surely move. on and when you lost people need to take you. with you. when you were needed in order to one of the cool couple of course when you're bored with your moment to look you up learned it move on you of. newark 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 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
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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 on damascus and had probably captured him like one on film. i mean you got that i mean you know by york you're welcome toto walk me up the wall you know neal because then you. got me going. to the drug of ideal but this is going to continue to. get these trucks going by boom below. cost just because you want to bring it to the garage of the bush all the senate but
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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 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 see all. the things they were just promotional cost plus. you know talk show. 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 ask 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. didn't that's a cop just thinks that it will be over the. normal sort of someone i've given the most i'm thinking i'd feel most likely war but i. just know that you know by saddam. yeah. 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 spotted 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 of the recent lukian 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 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 19. 63 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. and. 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 960 s. multiple intelligence agencies 14 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 who's 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 and plus one meaning that no one knew when the next crew would happen. in march $963.00 the baath party came to power syria ultimately became a soviet ally it was partially
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a victory of soviet intelligence. but it set up so says of us i don't know what. you do so i would the society's about it's a minor but you have that sloth and that's a huge you know to dismiss dismiss at the beginning or. to disclose. silicate wasn't only a child when he came to damascus with his father in the end it medved officially attached journalist on a. usually 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 it was the senior. team but it's anybody approach of america i need to post of put on say i'm going to. buy the movie. at the 1000000000 that same. syria did not give up on the blessings of western
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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 also repeatedly proven themselves trustworthy they would know on returning all of studied history. said he's. going to notice a bit of this month lot of the day he gets 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 with maintenance. can you give thanks to them is that just the
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e.c. is dumb enough to. see. us survive any of this shot by a better use loopy 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 signal offices were of particular value buddies lukian worked in an area at the time. down 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 us who do but she's been said he's the easy at me see the better. of bullets you could go to. with them plenty of. the bite out of this is that i'd ski to some of us all this that i do it. easy put in got that of
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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 on the marines or acquaintances we mean the deal is still a bit of blood soaked blood to. the post of us to touch them. up specific but ups community oh you i'd say it's over them is i live but cities east seen here when you go to india and the seas. 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 controls to see the. caress even got the photos she
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was about he had seen him slip on the new cool a kind of well you could see the area 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 i mean 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. so let's not pretend for a change of traits or that you're being silent steve just your take is our call to work with mr call the fun and let's fight. clay when they're all stupid racists.
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i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must door 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 the week with the scent of a $23.00. i doubt that i deserved to be. confined within 4 gray walls he fights using hot turn on to help him to leave this room. because you lose no on the whole but that it could mean the illusion of the guy on the edge of the pool much sure it is i'm a little slug each post overcome with the fun was due to. start i mean good
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it's. put me in the put semir choosing sion he certainly figured out how to climb the career ladder to get out in the war so listen because notion of buses it was emotional because and not split. the screen yet you go with the good at the statistical to make it good he's thinking don't assume you don't believe he has 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 best speech would have been yeah yeah but that was a good start to clean eastham about all in the must be done just that 70 but he didn't consider probably no other spy in the world had. reached such heights. there was yet another job israel's mossad counting with to expose and eliminate german war criminals. after world war 2 they fled europe and settled in the usa
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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 about she did it 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. you studio and you put your mother store minutes away one is from susan up on susan in the chenier but if the glove in the medical bunk them you are up 63 out of 6 trunk. which i do feel good would stuart about just sit with numb somebody says. she needs it but don't study just compute that bit within a story that will change and see is there a disk it. is that i had another suppose it's more that is there any meat
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but on the system idea she even need those new which would be that. close and then just the same since spoke with the machine must be decoded slimmy doozie 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 curwen used most of those you see double to try and google we see these move put out you are usually good 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 smugly see when they're done with it the bill so shows any particular of what they see any reason even east that i was made by you it's not mine 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 syria for own side of the my head of wills at the time they
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would not when you start a near you believe the covering caught on the. a loaf runs right up 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 execution of eichmann in time of eve in line cohen found throughout america in damascus he lived down to the 1st hour you coing notified tel aviv tomorrow i'm going to resign rio it's going to. brazil rio is friends right about. it's going to
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. 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 one bill that iranian. thought about 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 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 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 blocs interests ran counter to the official
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position of damascus which was seeking or approach went with the u.s. as. run amok. 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 bodies to console 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 buddies lukian turned his camera on and he is who in court let's see it in slow motion. and begin. business school
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in the study good at the oh yeah. was that i was going to school in the. us so we could have. that in a court of. the day for cohen and 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. in that 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 had in the past so i want to.
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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 on no. thank you that is the. obvious the feel of the full story come. a brazil win them to them chill you can go but it's considered to the arab 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 bill does that since you can give the by the police hold that. opinion. cannot go in the cock. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agents in like oh i was tracked by intelligence
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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. be a martyr. there are you 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 quarter red handed. he was a sickly in this bomb a shoe i'm about to do when your girl a priest on the bumper the cities can. use a tear lose a cut to the body of c.d.'s an image that machine you can store nikki. giovanni
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they seem. easy the new putting is just not the only nasheed the. just 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 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 motives or. ministers 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 good he. does that's in that the bush the blue the skies of you do give species you just might need it because it is. full moon your store commune would school but it was all they would use it for the study should then you can see many of them 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 knew 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. much but he's looking wrongs 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. steve 5 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 wood him i miss them so yes he said use. him it's we've got so much of us that you could hear. or see didn't you book a very it was sheet of loser let's go to what i knew this was a new post these committees just keep this do you need to see it and i would have you do this it's just been so nice that this is just inscribed on us to sell it because of on your piece that you see these of. but young of argument
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because you know going in. but it's that piece which i seize campus but don't see any. of that it go to school which religion is sort of a sore biased on the socialists i was there that number. one i was piecing together the course of events from the mid 19 sixties that old film poster from barry's 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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