As the sun rose on the morning of June 8th, 2021, one of the single largest law enforcement

operations in history began.

It starts in Australia and they're breaking down doors, they're arresting bikers, drug

traffickers, all of these sorts of people.

That's reporter Joseph Cox, author of the new book Darkwire. Police arrested more than 800 people in 16 countries in a series of raids that followed the path of the early morning sun.

Then the arrests move over as the sun moves to Europe, and they do the same thing there.

They're arresting all of these weapons smugglers and hit men and more drug traffickers as well,

until eventually the sun moves to the west coast,

to San Diego, and that's where the FBI

and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California

reveals what is behind all of these arrests.

This investigation called Operation Trojan Shield

shined a light into the shadowy industry

of hardened, encrypted devices.

For the first time,

the FBI developed and operated

its own hardened encrypted device company

called ANAM, A-N-O-M.

Drug smugglers, money launderers, biker gangs, and hitmen thought they were communicating securely with one another on an encrypted phone network that they all trusted.

But what they didn't know was that the FBI was secretly running it all along.

These criminals thought they were hiding in the shadows.

They were talking about multi-ton cocaine deals.

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