Tel Aviv, May 19 -- Documents and personal items belonging to famed Israeli spy Eli Cohen have been brought back to Israel from Syria to mark the 60th anniversary of his public execution in Damascus, the Israeli Prime Minister's Office has said.

The Prime Minister's Office on Sunday said that in a covert and complex Mossad operation, in cooperation with an allied foreign intelligence service, the official Syrian archive on Eli Cohen, which had thousands of findings that were held for decades by the Syrian security forces in a highly compartmentalized manner, were brought to Israel.

The PMO said that the special archive includes approximately 2,500 original documents, photographs and personal items, most of which have been revealed for t...