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How Mossad's Greatest Spy Deceived Everyone

Israeli spy Eli Cohen managed to infiltrate Syria’s military elite. Defend your privacy with a FREE trial of Hogo: https://app.hogo.com/benfBqWg6Nb.

Chapters

0:00 The Unlikely Recruit
1:37 Becoming Kamel Amin Tabet
2:08 A Spy in Argentina
2:59 Infiltrating Syria’s Military Elite
4:48 Exposing Military Secrets
5:59 Tracking Down Nazis
6:45 The Ba’ath Party Coup
8:49 The Capture of Eli Cohen
11:18 Today’s sponsor: Protect Yourself with Hogo

Highly recommend the book Our Man in Damascus: Eli Cohn by Eli Ben-hanan: https://a.co/d/iA6OIKc

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Sources:

Israel Ministry of Defense image: Syrian embassy in Buenos Aires: Andrzej Otrębski, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Transistor radio: By Joe Haupt from USA - Emerson Model 888 Pioneer 8-Transistor AM Radio, Made in the USA, Circa 1958, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45857180
Syria from the Golan Heights: By Sam Mugraby, Photos8.com, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7327015
Al Wehdah Dam at the border between Jordan and Syria: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Al-Wehdah-Dam-at-the-border-between-Jordan-and-Syria_fig1_374092937, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Eli Cohen memorial stone: תמר הירדני, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons

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