Syrian Rebels Seize Russian Spy Station Near Israeli Border -- Daily Beast

When the Free Syrian Army pushed Assad’s soldiers out of a town south of Damascus, the last thing they expected to find was a Russian spy post, a few miles from the Golan Heights.

Syrian rebels have overtaken a joint Russian-Syrian secret facility that they claim was a covert intelligence collection base. Opposition fighters say the post was used to snoop in on the communications of opposition groups -- and perhaps even the nearby Israelis.

Free Syrian Army officials, U.S. officials, and independent experts told The Daily Beast that the evidence of Russian involvement in the facility, just a few miles from Syria’s border with Israel, if verified, would show a level of Russian involvement in the Syrian civil war that was not previously known. Free Syrian Army officials posted several videos on YouTube showing both the outside and the inside of the facility, which the FSA captured over the weekend during a battle near Al Harah, south of Damascus, next to the Golan Heights.

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My Comment: Reports of joint Russian - Syrian intelligence operations have been circulating for a very long time .... but this is the first time that one of these listening posts have fallen (that I know of). I am also willing to bet that U.S. intelligence is prepared to pay a good price to have possession of that equipment .... if it is still intact.