Hundreds injured by booby-trapped pagers exploding in Lebanon in the hands of Hezbollah targets. This is not an operation that happens without a huge web of collaborators being involved.
My 2023 book 'We Are All Targets' covers the moment the CIA, IBM & Yugoslav tech firms teamed up to make the USSR's computers explode simultaneously.
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Yes, analysts.
Supply chain tampering is indeed how the Hizbollah/exploding pager operation was carried out.
No: It is not ‘unprecedented’. That example in my book is from the mid-1980s.
Yes: Lots of state actors work with the private sector to do it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz04m913m49o
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