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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
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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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