Posted on 05/18/2025 1:36:10 PM PDT by gitmo
Some 2,500 documents, photos, and belongings of executed spy Eli Cohen were retrieved from Syria in a special Mossad operation, the Prime Minister's Office said on Sunday.
The trove was recovered due to a secret, complex operation in cooperation with the official Syrian archive, which held thousands of classified items ever since his capture and subsequent execution in Damascus's al-Marjeh Square in 1965.
The items included the keys to his Damascus apartment, forged passports, and photos he took during his espionage, particularly of senior Syrian officials. He also left behind notebooks and diaries that were seized by Syria's intelligence service.
The announcement came 60 years to the day after his execution, with the items presented in the presence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad Director David Barnea, and the widow of the late Eli Cohen, Mrs. Nadia Cohen. Included was Cohen's will, which he wrote hours before his execution, and of which only a copy has been publicly revealed so far.
"Eli Cohen is a legend. In the test of time, he is revealed as the greatest intelligence agent in the history of the state, whose heroism and activity contributed to the historic victory in the Six-Day War," Netanyahu said. "The Eli Cohen archive, which was brought with special effort, will educate generations, and expresses our tireless commitment to returning all of our missing persons, prisoners of war and abductees to our country."
"Bringing the archive is a significant achievement of the highest ethical and moral value, and another step in advancing the investigation to locate the burial place of our man in Damascus," said Barnea. "This important mission is before our eyes, and we are committed to continuing to do everything we can to realize it. "We will continue to work to locate and return all the missing, the fallen, and the kidnapped - the living for rehabilitation and the fallen for eternal rest in the tomb of Israel."
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This comes after Israel worked for decades to locate every piece of evidence relating to Cohen, aimed at discovering his fate after his execution and his grave. Included in the archive is the orginal sentencing for his execution, which stated that the court allowed the Damascus Jewish community religious leader, Rabbi Nissim Andabu, to accompany Cohen in accordance with Jewish tradition ahead of his execution.
Syrian intelligence also compiled a large file labeled "Nadia Cohen," which collected his widow's efforts to secure his release from prison, including letters to world leaders and the Syrian president.
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Thank you very much and God bless you.
Israel has been on a roll lately doing things no one else could come close to.
You got that right!
Wow.
Let's see how good they are without tens of billions in American money and tech.
There was a movie about him. “The Impossible Spy.”
There was a movie about him. “The Impossible Spy.”
Thanks for the heads up. I will definitely check that out.
I just found it on my streaming service. Free !!
I’m watching it now.
Also a streaming series starring Sacha Baron Cohen, who did a remarkably good job of portraying him. THE SPY, 2019.
I think they’ll do just fine with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob on their side!
Will you seriously shut the hell uo you disgusting, wretched pig of a human being.
You truly a sub human sack of anti semetic shit, just like your failed butt buddy pat buchanan.
Yes. We all know you seethe with jew hatred, so why even bother commenting on this
January 2013 : (Jordan : Israelis meet with Syrian rebels, ask for help in locating the remains of executed Israeli Intel agent Eli Cohen — see 2965, SixDayWar) The London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported that, when Israel officials met Syrian opposition commanders in Jordan this week, they asked for help to locate the remains of Eli Cohen, one of Israel’s most celebrated spies. He was caught and publicly hanged on May 18, 1965 after an epic career. For years, Cohen, posing as a wealthy Arab businessman, gained the confidence of Syrian officials at the highest levels of government and managed to obtain its secret war and political plans.
Let’s not. We need their intel.
I will be silent -- as soon as they get off our dole.
Deal?
As the late conservative columnist Joe Sobran once observed, if you criticize Israel twice, you're accused of being "obsessed." But if you praise Israel continuously, no one accuses you of being "obsessed."
In 2002, Israel's intel told us that Saddam was close to creating nuclear weapons.
It was one of the reasons we invaded Iraq.
Israel's intel (disinformation?) turned out to be false, and thousands of American soldiers were killed as a result.
You are seriously mentally ill.
You live in a fantasy world
Sincerely,
an American JEW bastard living in ISRAEL
I remember the 1980s, when American conservatism was characterized by a William F. Buckley style of respectful disagreement.
Alas, those days are long gone.
I was stuck at a friend’s house for a few days and he only had AppleTV. Nothing else was available so I watched The Spy. Quite good. And loud mouth liberal buffoon Sacha Baron Cohen actually did a great job!
“Alas, those days are long gone.”
well geez, why should i be respectful to a person who is so blind with jew hatred?
yeah yeah yeah, you’ll respond by saying you’re just criticizing Israel and have nothing against Jews...........
I’ve come across dozens of people exactly like you over the years with the same exact “reasoning”
I even have a step-cousin through marriage who loves the Third Reich and loathes Jews, and especially hates his aunt for marrying the “jew swine” (my old man). but even with his hatred of anything and everything Jewish, he is still smart enough to be pro-Israel as he knows the same forces of evil trying to destroy Israel are the same forces of evil that want to destroy the USA and did 9/11 and the pulse nightclub attack, and the San Bernardino attack, and the Boston Marathon attack, and the July 4 2002 LAX airport attack, and the 2017 NYC truck ramming attack, and many other Islamic attacks in the USA alone (I’m not gonna start with the foreign Islamic attacks)
Yeah, he hates us kikes, but he wants Israel to crush Gaza into smithereens. He’s smart enough to “get it”
148 US soldiers were killed in the first Gulf War and 35 of those were friendly fire.
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