87. Mossad Pager Attack: Crippling Hezbollah (Ep 2)

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Hezbollah thought they’d found the perfect solution to Israeli surveillance: the pager. In the midst of their paranoia, they negotiated a cut-price deal for thousands of new devices, but what they received was a trap. The mass explosions on September 17 2024, injured 3,000 people and killed dozens, including civilians and children. The victims - many of them part-time militia members or political operatives - were not just front-line fighters. Listen as David and Gordon tell the astonishing and devastating story of how Israel achieved what it could not in 2006: the neutralisation of its most dangerous adversary on its northern border. This is the story of how an innovative, physical supply chain attack fundamentally changed the balance of power in the Middle East. ------------------- Join The Declassified Club: Start your free trial at⁠ ⁠⁠therestisclassified.com⁠⁠⁠ - go deeper into the world of espionage with exclusive Q&As, interviews with top intelligence insiders, quarterly livestreams, ad-free listening, early access to episodes and live show tickets, and weekly deep dives into original spy stories. Members also get curated reading lists, special book discounts, prize draws, and access to our private chat community. To sign up to the free newsletter, go to: ⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/goalhanger.com/tric-free-newsletter-sign-up⁠ ⁠ ------------------- Order a signed edition of Gordon's latest book, The Spy in the Archive, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠via this link.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------------------- Email: [email protected] Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@triclassified⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For exclusive interviews, bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to series,
0:09.0	first look at live show tickets, a weekly newsletter, and discounted books.
0:13.1	Join the declassified club at the rest is classified.com.
0:17.9	Mickey could try to sell his car privately.
0:24.1	Or get it sold today with we buy any car He could spend days on end trying to sell to a bunch of time wasters
0:30.0	Or selling a flash and head to the fun fair with the kids
0:34.5	Proper gutted
0:37.1	Or proper impressed To get a quote in Fun Fair with the kids. Proper gutted.
0:39.9	Or proper impressed.
0:42.2	To get a quote in 30 seconds,
0:44.8	enter your reg number now at Webanicar.com. The aim it wasn't killing hesbbollah terrorists if he's just dead, so he's dead.
0:59.3	But if he's wounded, you have to take him to the hospital, take care of him.
1:03.4	You need to invest money and effort.
1:05.4	And those people without hands and eyes are living proof walking in of, don't mess with us. They are walking
1:12.7	proof of our superiority all around the Middle East. If you look afterward at Nasrallah's eyes,
1:18.3	he was defeated. He already lost the war, and his soldiers look at him and they saw a broken leader,
1:23.8	and this was the tipping point of the war. I don't know if you know that Nasrallah, when we ran the beeper operation, just next to him in the bunker,
1:32.5	several people had a beeper receiving the message, and with his own eyes, he saw them collapsing.
1:39.8	Well, welcome to the rest is classified.
1:41.8	I'm Gordon Carrera, and I'm David McCloskey.
1:43.7	And that was an Israeli intelligence officer speaking anonymously to the CBS program in the US,
1:50.9	60 Minutes, about the intent behind this operation that we're looking at to infect
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