Washington: Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents have shared new information about a highly secret operation. Intelligence agents told how about three months ago, Hezbollah terrorists were targeted in Lebanon and Syria by blasting ‘pagers’ and ‘walkie talkies’. The agents spoke in a segment of the CBS “60 Minutes” program that aired Sunday night. They wore masks to hide their identities and their voices were altered.
Hezbollah had no idea
One agent said the campaign was launched 10 years ago using ‘walkie-talkies’ secretly planted with explosives, which Hezbollah was unaware it was purchasing from its enemy Israel. . The ‘Walkie-Talkie’ was not detonated till September, but after the incident of explosion in a bomb-laden pager, the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ was also detonated.
Complete planning was done
One official said, “We created an imaginary world, which was named ‘Michael’.” Another official said that pagers were used in the second phase of the plan and work on this plan started in 2022. It was when Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency learned that Hezbollah was purchasing pagers from a Taiwanese company. He told that the pager had to be made a little bigger so that the explosives hidden inside could be kept. The explosives were tested several times on dummies to determine the correct amount of explosives so that only Hezbollah fighters would be harmed and not anyone else nearby.
Pager blast in Lebanon
What did the agent say?
The Mossad tested a number of ‘ring tones’ to find one that would sound important enough for a person to take a pager out of their pocket. The second agent, named ‘Gabriel’, said it took two weeks to convince Hezbollah to accept the heavy pager. This was partly achieved by using false advertisements on YouTube to promote the devices as dustproof, waterproof, providing long battery life and so on. Gabriel compared this intelligence scheme to a 1998 psychological film about a man who has no idea that he is living in a false world and that his family and friends are just actors. He is paid to maintain the illusion of his false world.
had an eye on everything
“When they were buying from us, they had no idea that they were buying from the Mossad,” Gabriel said. We operate like the ‘Truman Show’, we control everything behind the scenes. At the same time, everything feels normal to them. Everything including businessmen, marketing, engineers, showroom was 100 percent perfect. “As a result, by September, Hezbollah terrorists had 5,000 pagers in their pockets.”
Panic created after pager blast in Lebanon
The agent told what was the purpose
Israel attacked with explosives containing ‘pager’ on September 17 this year, when pagers started beeping across Lebanon and the devices exploded. The next day the Mossad activated ‘walkie-talkies’, some of which exploded during the funeral of about 30 people killed in the pager attacks. Grabiel said the goal was to send a message more than just killing Hezbollah fighters. “If he is hit, he will die,” he said. But if they are injured, you have to take them to the hospital, take care of them. You have to spend money and make efforts to save lives. The people roaming around Lebanon without hands and eyes are living proof of the consequences of messing with us. He is walking proof of our superiority throughout West Asia.” (AP)
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