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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 pity and a fight in a minute so without present this. 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 have refused. any going out which incidentally neal 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 owing a super spy to some consider
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a national hero and others and evil villain an israeli double o. 7. i need because it's but it's them and they at the. at the one. still. if but. it's 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 political will your money and there was only one word syria they gave the boxes to us they say along with the old video camera place.
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said take it we don't need to get up long to properly. going into my link here. i don't dump there while young. and then. you know which you are off to waymon you partial or you see order which you move in you come once you mean you're clear for a are out on the move there you are you. who you are when you know our lives are pushed you know as i walked over to the show but on closer the last. clear with the will almost surely make no. doubt and when you lost people need to take you. with you. when you were needed in order the wonder of the book will come to a partial when you're bored but your moment to look you up and learned to move on your own more. than if you were like when she was. that's how i got these films
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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 and their granddaughter yulia. my responses were no longer alive so i found you only 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. ringback with you. you know bill because then you. got
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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 gods of the bush. at the moment damage in the 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 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.
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things they were just promotional cost plus. store cocktail or. more. after the war was over but he's looking and 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. doesn't that just thinks that it will be over the. normal sort of symbol i've given the most of the most but i. just know that you know my. focus there will be what the young insidious the greatest. 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 spotted 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 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. this very camera. any soviet film enthusiastic could only dream of having won.
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the leather case preserved its original stage. back in 1963 bodies couldn't even imagine him he had probably caught on camera. 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 there were at least 150 military advisors of the israeli intelligence agency mossad knew about. the
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presence of bodies leukemia 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 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.
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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 and syria ultimately became a soviet ally it was partially a victory of soviet intelligence. but it set up so says just as i don't know what. you do so i woulda said he's an a because it's a minor but he had that sloth and that's a huge in the e.u. to dismiss dismiss the beating in your. silly game wasn't only a trial when he came to damascus with his father in the end it medved go officially 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
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speak publicly about it i mean. poets of america i need be opposed to 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 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. that is a bit of this month 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
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$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. the means to just be seen as you. 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 into this of. the state yes he said the smooth deal about signal offices where a 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 officer. sions it's perfectly clear that he was around the soviet
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spies and was proficiency in transmit a signal into sections of a list who do but she's percentage is the easy at me she does. 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 it 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 dint of all spirit about him he lived in damascus under an alias and believed that he could afford not to be ashamed of od the marines or acquaintances we mean the deal is still a bit of blue it's a blow to. the post of us to teach them to chill it come. out of his head 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. guth. given that when you look at least you
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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. bud got them to she was a by get him slip on the new cool a can of well we. still need the a p had begun to trade his pos to the offices of seniors syrian officials back in faraway argentina cohen relied on a syrian military attack come in a huff 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.
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aesop's fables caution us to be careful what we wish for because it might just come true after 4 years of donald trump the democrats a triumphant li retaking power in the united states such a cause for celebration all concerned. the world is driven by shaped by our own personal. dares thinks. we dare to ask.
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the good news no one in the world but that a community within those in the guy on the edge of the pool machine will give them a little plug each post overcome with a pun was due to. start a new. idea 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 course as it was emotional because and. he's giving it a go what god got at the statistic i thought it a good use to keep going to assume you don't believe. cohen was close to the highest authorities of syria as evidenced by this famous picture of him standing on the roof of the prime. misters residence one more could this teach would have been
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yeah yeah but that was a good start to continue stuff 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 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 a constitution because there's a boom in the news story. to what ups community nobody of the bush is just below your cup of syria but at the steady t.d.c. it that's who skew i could serve you scott who could be the present but i'm a bit stupid to commute to submit nationally but studies show c.d.'s but the most door. to you studio and you but you might have store minutes away when it's time
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susan offense was a young musician you would have to go out of the bunk to me are up 63 out of 6 dogs . because i do good would story about just minutes it moved with number so why do you think. cities here that don't study just compute that bit within the story that will change and see is the redskins. because that right now there's a bush is there any meat but on the system id see even e those knew which would be that even am close and then just the same since spoke with the question must be difficult to see you do see the ego does not oppose the will to vote you. see me if you instead i'm good you could but i missed in that's why the buddha and mystic order when you know some of those you see double trying to do good misdeeds moved it out i just. good it's. the police
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take you to the who could of us i'm glad easy a look to see any csma smugness even the 2 would get the bills to show those anybody a little bit of what seeing isn't even east of us in a poignant scene that i'm on a bus on the cut up 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 fronts 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
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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 time of peace in one 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 read about it it's going to. back this 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 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 at the moment that some would say that some say that this. particular mission brought the
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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 position of damascus which was seeking or approach went with the u.s. as. run amok and was later released on medical grounds and he voluntarily surrendered to the off artes of the federal republic of germany a soviet officer signalman batteries 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
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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 the good of the oh yeah. that i would. rather those who didn't. have. that in. 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 mossad transmitted data related to a new mission the introduction to every song can. tain parts of the code.
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his greatest achievement was passing classified information about the position of the syrian troops on the golan heights this is the key strategic location that syria could use to annihilate israel and vice versa. he was sort of pursuits a deal or escalate. period. suniel to that of so you would in the past so want to that was the true thing you see in them. given there are no stars. but stomach would take a thought in this but it's in the mushroom his own symptom but. although. the humor does the. obvious the feel or suffer the story come. to them true and you can go but it's the considered thought out up ski when cohen passed intelligence to tel aviv it caused radio interference for the radio
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listeners in his neighborhood the syrian secret service started getting complaints from staff members of nearby embassy cities of. the start since you can keep the by the police hold that. opinion. on the in the car. it was january 19th 65 when israeli agent in my co i was tracked by intelligence services. of course in the wrong city. really was when the inertia. is about old mrs purcell east. doesn't go in your butcher and across the sami but you're going to. look whether or not you can use meetings community because that's their shoes are. just the studio soldiers and several plain clothes. man entered cohen's apartment right
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when he was using a radio to transmit some messages to tel aviv cohen was caught red handed. he was a sickly in this book. about when you got the priest on the top of the city's. say was because he was a. loser got a bit of c.d.'s i mean that's when you can store nikki. giovanni they seem to. be. a new person is just not been since the early. going to start a new. dawn 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 think 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
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cohen was an enemy of syria. his execution in damascus was broadcast live. when the by this day in the murder. mystery of the noble boy in the cousin e. e. bush it's no good to such beauty. the war seal it was sold us that's not build a. bomb your store commission would sue but it was all they were just to buy me a post i'm sure then you can see many of them pour in the bodies to buy them to put more them. in the coffin with the sponsor body was taken to an unknown destination israel has been trying to repatriate his remains ever since.
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me 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 scout the city of course not. much but he's looking wrongs 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 boat him i miss them dear so yes he said use to. him it's we've all of us are unique here. by sea didn't you book
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a very atmosphere of loser list goes on to say 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 inscribed on us to share because of a new piece of cheese of who koku skin. but healing of a human because knowing him other. than it's that these each of us but don't see any syria use the use of that there was a total it. as so biased on the social service that when you 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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