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Israel's secret [UNCLEAR] p. 146 Yariu Eli Cohen 54 Amit and took over the Mossad and Aman respectively. Aman's unit 188 (the [UNCLEAR] of the ill starred Unit 131 of the Lavon Affair), which was responsible for planting and running Israeli spies in Arab countries was transferred to the Mossad. The two service chiefs agreed that the Mossad would run both Israeli and Arab agents in the front-line every state. The new arrangement which had brought Aman's executive - the head of Unit 188 as well as Amit himself - into the Mossad, helped neutralize the traditional IDF complaint that the civilian agency failed to supply the army with enough purely military intelligence. 54 one of the most promising agents transferred from Amen to the Mossad in 1964 was Eli Cohen, who was caught and hanged by the Syrians the following year. During the three years he spent in Damascus Cohen provided a vast mass of high-grade political and military intelligence, including a great deal of detail about the front line belt of Syrian fortifications in the Golan Heights, which were captured by the IDF in June 1967. Cohen who was the first Israeli spy caught and executed as an Israeli was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1924 and emigrated to Israel in 1957 after the expulsion of active Zionists following the Suez war. from Egypt In 1959 he had come secretly to Israel for a short sabotage and communications course after he had an affair arrests and trial. After emigrating to Israel, Cohen briefly served in the IDF as a translator and was recruited by Unit 188 in May 1960. In February 1961, armed with forged papers identifying him as "Kamal Amin Tha'bet", a Syrian- Argentinian, Cohen flew to Buenos Aires where he began to mix with the local Syrian and Lebanese immigrant community, fleshing out his cover and making contacts. The no-how "Tha'bets" were a Syrian family that had emigrated to Egypt in 1933 and then to Argentina in 1948. "Kamal was born in Beirut in 1930. He told his new friends in Arg. that he was a wealthy businessman and was about to return to his ancestral homeland, Syria. Cohen arrived in Damascus in January 1962.