Eli Cohen: Mossad Agent 88

[dexter]

In one of the most audacious individual espionage operations ever, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jewish accounting clerk, was recruited by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, trained intensively as a field agent for six months and given a new identity as an Arab businessman in South America.
In 1962, he was deployed as a spy to Damascus where he successfully ingratiated himself in the higher echelons of Syrian society.
He fed intelligence to Mossad for three years and is credited by some for enabling the Israeli military to take the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
Cohen was eventually found out, however, and publicly executed in 1965.
In this documentary, a Syrian politician and writer discusses the events that led to the arrest, trial and death sentence of Mossad Agent 88.

 

[Joe1351]

There is a great series in Netflix about him. Search for The Spy.

 

[PanzerKiel]

In one of the most audacious individual espionage operations ever, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jewish accounting clerk, was recruited by Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, trained intensively as a field agent for six months and given a new identity as an Arab businessman in South America.
In 1962, he was deployed as a spy to Damascus where he successfully ingratiated himself in the higher echelons of Syrian society.
He fed intelligence to Mossad for three years and is credited by some for enabling the Israeli military to take the Golan Heights in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
Cohen was eventually found out, however, and publicly executed in 1965.
In this documentary, a Syrian politician and writer discusses the events that led to the arrest, trial and death sentence of Mossad Agent 88.

An excellent agent with a phenomenal memory. A true example to be followed by people of this field. For me, singularly responsible for IDF successful capture of the almost impregnable Golan Heights.

ONE GOOD AGENT EQUALS AN ARMY.

 

[Crixus]

Some say the best spies are those who never get detected ..............

Culper ring is one such example