Elite agents have extremely high requirements. Being loyal to the motherland and willing to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the country is just the minimum requirement.
At the first meeting, Mossad deliberately gave Cohen a wrong address. When Cohen got there, he instinctively felt that there was a problem. How could Mossad recruit intelligence personnel in a noisy place? Is it a test? If it was a test, then the best place to observe him was undoubtedly behind him. He turned his head and saw that he saw the intelligence officer standing in front of the window looking at him:
To become a top-level agent like Cohen, some almost instinctive qualities and qualities cannot be achieved by training alone, such as the strong affinity and personality charm in interpersonal communication, the sense of sense of prowess and spying on intelligence, and want to associate with the other party’s senior management. Close friends, these things are indispensable. No one is stupid. Everyone at the top is a human being. It is very difficult for an outsider to win their full trust.
Do you believe that, for several years, Syrian politicians and business celebrities, as well as the leaders of the counterintelligence agency, loved this guy Cohen from the bottom of their hearts. He was unsuspecting and because of this, he was able to detect and hear that. Multi-core secrets.
"Syria is my real home." Cohen, who is generous, loves Syria, has an innocent background, and has a pseudonym of Kamal, is a good fish in the Argentine Syrian community. With a letter of recommendation from the Syrian Embassy in Argentina military attache Hafez and other celebrities, Cohen Quickly gain a foothold in Syria, make friends, do import and export business, and carry out espionage activities.
Accompanied by the second generation of officials, Cohen patrolled the fortifications built by Syria in the Golan Heights and obtained a large amount of intelligence to help Israel conquer the so-called impregnable Golan Heights in one fell swoop in the Third Middle East War.
The number of coups in Syria in the 1960s was dizzying, and some were overthrown within a month or two of taking office.
In 1963, the Syrian military conspired with Cohen. Cohen invited many dignitaries to participate in a lavish party of beautiful women. Friends of the military took the opportunity to launch a coup and held important positions. Cohen's old friend General Hafez was on the throne of the presidency.
Under the president's arrangement, Cohen started a business with the mysterious builder and later horror tycoon Bin Laden's father. The 7-year-old little Bin Laden looked cute and pleasant.
Cohen entered the Syrian political circle. Hafez asked him to be the deputy minister of the Syrian Ministry of Defense. He was overjoyed by the news, including the prime minister. Who could have thought that an agent was so good?
Unlike other spy war dramas, "Agent Cohen" pays great attention to the excavation of human nature.
Cohen is willing to go through fire and water for the motherland, but people's hearts are always fleshy. In order to work, he had to alienate those Syrian friends who had helped him a lot but later lost their power. He was naturally spurned by others when he became a fan. This kind of helplessness and pain, which is difficult to speak of, can only be silently endured.
Having been in the upper class for a long time, Cohen was too deeply involved in the drama and was not used to other people giving orders to him. He returned to Israel and clashed with airport security.
Hearing of changes in the top level in Syria, Cohen felt that he was also in danger and requested the suspension of the mission. However, the position of Deputy Minister of Defense in Syria is too tempting. Israeli senior officials have repeatedly considered asking Cohen to go to Damascus for the last mission. This is a decision that Israel regrets.
On January 21, 1965, the Syrian military broke in and arrested Cohen, who was using a password to send a report. 500 related persons were arrested one after another.
Seeing the scene where Cohen made the report and was arrested, I couldn't help but think of the red classic "The Electric Wave That Never Dies" (1958):
Israel launched a rescue operation that swept the world. The embassies abroad mobilized Pope Paul VI and countless countries’ dignitaries and celebrities to lobby Syria. Leaders of some countries personally flew to Damascus to request the pardon of Cohen; the Israeli Prime Minister authorized any transaction. , The exchange of 6 Syrian agents is okay, as long as Syria releases people.
However, Cohen, a close friend of the president and the incoming Deputy Minister of Defense, has turned Syria into a joke in the Arab world. How can this joke continue? Moreover, including the president, Cohen has too many high-level Syrian friends. He does not die for a day, and they cannot rest for a day.
On May 18, 1965, Cohen was hanged and his body was shown in public for 6 hours.
Many streets and communities in Israel are named after Cohen. In 2005, the Israeli news website held the selection of Israel's 200 Great Men, and Cohen ranked 26th.
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