The latest account seeping out of the Middle East claim Hezbollah has recently tracked down , arrested and come out a significant , but undislosed , bit of American spy working for the CIA . And their techniques for discovering the cloak and daggar sherlock ? Disconcertingly simple .
Citing anon. sources , the AP says that the terrorist organization , whom the State Department call “ the most technically capable terrorist system in the world , ” has a dedicated undercover agent scrap unit . This time around , they merely looked for strange cellphone activity using non - proprietary software package .
Using the a la mode commercial software , Nasrallah ’s undercover agent - huntsman unit begin methodically searching for undercover agent in Hezbollah ’s midst . To get them , U.S. official said , Hezbollah analyze cellular phone data point looking for anomalies . The depth psychology identified cellular telephone that , for example , were used rarely or always from specific locations and only for a short period of time . Then it came down to old - fashioned , shoe - leather detective work : Who in that area had information that might be worth selling to the opposition ?
The effort took year but eventually Hezbollah , and later the Lebanese authorities , began ready arrest . By one estimate , 100 Israeli assets were apprehended as the news made headlines across the region in 2009 . Some of those suspected Israeli spies worked for telecommunications party and served in the armed services .
And what ’s commove is that prior to this debacle , there were memo circulate through the CIA aim out that spy in Lebanon were particularly vulnerable . It ’s just the late feather in the CIA’sincompetency crown .
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