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Gavin Blackburn

Israel recovers archive belonging to spy Eli Cohen, hanged in Syria in 1965

Israel has retrieved thousands of items belonging to the country's most famous spy after a covert operation in Syria, authorities said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared some of the 2,500 items from the Syrian archive relating to Eli Cohen on Sunday, a spy for the national intelligence agency Mossad who infiltrated the political echelon in the neighbouring country.

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