Lebanese Pagers, Hungarian Trojan Horse… How Israel Twice Trapped Hezbollah

It’s a story of false leads. It’s played out in Lebanon, Israel, Hungary, Bulgaria… And probably elsewhere. The intelligence services are used to it: creating covers, installing sleeping agents, giving themselves the appearance of normality to deceive vigilance. Sometimes, the agents engage in real fake jobs, found real fake companies that prosper for months or years. They enter into contracts, real or not, with a very specific objective.

Intelligence officials also say it in veiled terms: in the age of social networks and search engines, it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain secrecy. “ There are ways »assures a source close to the services. This time, the scale and sophistication of the assembly are unprecedented.

An example of a successful operation is the company BAC Consulting Kft, based in Hungary. It provided…