Spy widow Eli Cohen reveals new secrets about her husband’s journey in Syria

Nadia Cohen, widow of Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy in Syria, revealed, on Thursday, new secrets related to the nature of her husband’s work in Syria.

The “12” Hebrew channel, yesterday evening, Thursday, held an interview with Nadia Cohen, in conjunction with the commemoration of the 56th anniversary of his hanging in the center of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Although Cohen’s widow did not know that her husband was a spy working in Syria, and that he had previously told her of his own work in the arms trade outside Israel, she reported that the Syrians revealed his order a month before his arrest and were watching him closely.

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Nadia Cohen confirmed that a month ago, she received a video clip of Eli Cohen wandering around the streets of Damascus, before his arrest, in January 1965, explaining that Eli at this stage “really felt that he was being photographed, and turned his head to the person who was He depicts as if he no longer cares. ”

She indicated that her husband set out in his intelligence work from a small apartment in the Syrian capital, Damascus, where he assumed the personality of the Syrian businessman, Kamel Amin Thabet, and became a senior official associated with the Syrian government, transmitting important and urgent intelligence information to Israel, so that he almost became He was a minister in the Syrian government at the time, before he was tried in a military trial and hanged in April 1965.

It is noteworthy that Eli Cohen began his secret activities in Syria in 1961 under the name of Kamel Amin Thabet, and over the years he managed to develop strong relations and became close to the head of the Syrian government.

Cohen took advantage of this to transfer valuable intelligence information to Israel regarding the deployment of the Syrian army in the occupied Golan Heights, and the Israeli spy was at the height of his activity a candidate for the post of Deputy Minister of Defense of Syria.