How Israel’s ‘Operation Grim Beeper’ rattled global spy chiefs

How Israel’s ‘Operation Grim Beeper’ rattled global spy chiefs

Few western intelligence officials say they would approve something similar to Israel’s pager attack

The New York Times revealed on Sunday the details of a vast undercover operation carried out by Israel against the...

The Financial Times reported that several current and former senior Western intelligence officials did not approve of the Israeli operation to blow up Hezbollah pagers. The newspaper wrote: “In interviews with more than a dozen current and former senior Western intelligence officials from four countries allied with Israel, all acknowledged that the pager bombing was an unusual spying ploy, but only three of them expressed approval of such an ope…

How Israel’s ‘Operation Grim Beeper’ rattled global spy chiefs – Sky News: The Latest News from the World

A group of Israeli executives were in an ebullient mood earlier this year after seeing how exploding pagers, sent by the Mossad, had killed or maimed thousands of Hizbollah militants and civilians in Lebanon. Then they met a former European spymaster. Instead of high-fiving the executives over the Israeli sabotage, the ex-intelligence chief doused their […]