The Mossad (Israel’s external security service) has actually given Israel roughly 2,500 initial files, photos, and individual impacts coming from renowned Israeli spy Eli Cohen– obtained from the main Syrian archives 6 years after his execution in Damascus.
The unmatched objective, performed in coordination with an allied foreign intelligence firm, marks a historical minute in Israel’s continuous effort to protect and honor the tradition of among its most popular intelligence operatives.
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The operation was exposed precisely 60 years to the day because Cohen was openly awaited a Damascus square in 1965. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Director David Barnea provided numerous of the recuperated products, consisting of Cohen’s handwritten last will, to his widow, Nadia Cohen, in an unique event in Jerusalem.
” The Eli Cohen archive, which was generated an unique effort, will inform generations, and reveals the undeviating dedication to restore home all of our missing out on, hostages and captives,” Netanyahu stated, calling Cohen “the best secret agent in the record of the state.”
The archive consists of Cohen’s letters to his household in Israel, photos of him throughout his undercover operations, Syrian intelligence reports from his interrogation, and a chest of individual products– amongst them secrets to his Damascus home, created passports, and journals recording Mossad objectives to surveil Syrian military setups, consisting of in Quneitra.