On Sunday, CBS News journalist Lesley Stahl released an interview on “60 Minutes” with two now-retired Israeli Mossad agents about how last fall’s exploding pagers were developed and deployed. Both agents’ identities were carefully concealed for obvious reasons.
On Sept. 17, after Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah had been in an escalating war for nearly a year, the Israeli spy agency Mossad launched one of the most daring and sophisticated deceptions in the history of counterintelligence: the pager plot, a modern take on the Trojan horse. Mossad created a bomb in a pocket – and tricked Hezbollah fighters into unwittingly wearing these devices on their bodies.
The repercussions of the plot have been dramatic, including aiding in the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the weakening of Iran, and the decimating of the target of the plot:…
