Somebody should be terrified that Mossad agents are wandering freely across Syria and elsewhere, presumably accidentally misplacing cell phones as they go….
[IsraelTimes] Covert operation retrieves entire Syrian archive 60 years after his execution in Damascus, includes passports, final will, letters, keys to his apartmentSome 2,500 documents and personal items belonging to legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen were returned to Israel from Syria in a covert operation carried out by the Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end..., the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday.
The announcement coincided with the 60th anniversary of Cohen’s public execution in Damascus on May 18, 1965, and was made during a ceremony in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mossad Director David Barnea presented the materials to Cohen’s widow, Nadia Cohen.
The thousands of items collectively made up the entirety of the Syrian intelligence archive on Eli Cohen, the PMO said, calling the operation a "historic" achievement. The operation was conducted with the help of a foreign intelligence agency, according to the statement.
Among the recovered materials were handwritten letters from Cohen to his family, proof of communications between the Israeli spy and senior Syrian officials, photos taken during his years undercover in Syria, and forged passports.
The collection also featured a host of Cohen’s personal belongings, including the keys to his Damascus apartment, which were confiscated by Syrian intelligence upon his arrest.
Cohen’s original will, drafted just hours before he was hanged, was also retrieved, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Also found were extensive handwritten notes collected from his home by Syrian intelligence, which included tasks assigned to him by the Mossad such as instructions to monitor a target and gather intelligence on Syrian military bases in Quneitra.
The original document sentencing Cohen to death, as well as a letter allowing Rabbi Nissim Andabo — head of Damascus’s Jewish community at the time — to accompany Cohen in his final hours were also secured.
Finally, a thick orange folder was found, titled "Nadia Cohen," containing surveillance records tracking Cohen’s widow and her efforts to secure international intervention, including letters she sent to world leaders and the Syrian president pleading for his release.
The PMO attributed the success of the operation to decades-long efforts by the Mossad "to locate every piece of information about Eli Cohen in an attempt to shed light on his fate and burial place."
Barnea called the recovery "another step in advancing the investigation to locate the burial place of our man in Damascus."
"We will continue to work to locate and return all the missing, the fallen and the kidnapped," he added.
Netanyahu, in a statement of his own, said that the archive "will educate generations, and expresses our tireless commitment to returning all of our missing persons, prisoners of war and hostages."
Cohen, born in Egypt to a Jewish family, joined the Mossad in the early 1960s and infiltrated the top echelons of Syria’s politicianship under the alias Kamel Amin Thaabet.
The intelligence he obtained over four years was credited with playing a key role in Israel’s stunning success in the 1967 Six Day War, particularly in the capture of the Golan Heights.
He was tried and executed by the Syrian government for espionage on May 18, 1965.
His body has never been recovered, despite repeated efforts over the years by successive Israeli governments and the Mossad.
The recovery of the documents comes a week after the Mossad and the Israel Defense Forces recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zvi Feldman, who went missing in the First Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
War’s battle of Sultan Yacoub in 1982. The body was recovered from "the heart of Syria" in a special operation.
The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo...
regime in December, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries.