Like Aviv, Israel (AP) – Israel has recovered thousands of articles belonging to the most famous spy in the country after a secret operation in Syria.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared some of the 2,500 articles from the Syrian archives concerning Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who infiltrated the political level in Syria, with the widow of Cohen. Sunday marked 60 years since Cohen was hanged on a place in Damascus.
The recently animated articles in Israel include documents, recordings, photos and articles collected by Syrian intelligence after its capture in January 1965, letters from his own writing to his family in Israel, photographs of his activity during his operational mission in Syria and personal objects that were taken from his house after his capture.
Socks of articles brought to Israel included worn files filled with handwritten notes, keys to his apartment in Damascus, passports and false identification documents, Mossad missions to people and specific places for supervisors, and the documentation of all the efforts of her widow, Nadia Cohen, begging for the leaders of the world for her publication.
Cohen's success in Syria was one of Mossad Spy Agency The first major achievements and the top secret intelligence that he obtained is largely credited with having helped Israel prepare for his rapid victory in the war of the Middle East of 1967.
Eli Cohen managed to forge close contacts in the political and military hierarchy of the Israeli arnecem in the early 1960s, finally amount to become a main adviser to the Syrian Minister of Defense. In 1965, Cohen was surprised in the process of canceling information in Israel. He was tried and hanged on a place in Damascus on May 18, 1965. His remains have not yet been returned to Israel, where he is considered a national hero.
In 2019, actor Sasha Baron Cohen represented Eli Cohen (unrelated) in a Netflix series of six episodes called “The Spy”.
“We carried out a special operation by Mossad, by the State of Israel, to propose its archives (Eli Cohen), which have been in the safes of Syrian intelligence for 60 years,” Nadia Cohen told Jerusalem on Sunday.
Before visualizing the articles, Nadia Cohen told Netanyahu that the most important thing was to bring Cohen's body back. Netanyahu said that Israel continued to work on the location of Cohen's body. Last week, Israel has recovered the body of an Israeli soldier From Syria, which had disappeared for more than four decades, after being killed during a confrontation with Syrian forces in Lebanon in 1982.
“Eli is an Israeli legend. He is the greatest agent that Israeli information had in the years when the state existed. There was nobody like him,” said Netanyahu.
