How Mossad Built a Fake Factory to Pager-Bomb Hezbollah

In September 2024, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon in a near-simultaneous attack targeting Hezbollah operatives. But this wasn't a simple supply chain interception — Mossad had infiltrated the manufacturing process itself. By constructing a "synthetic supply chain" spanning Taiwan, Hungary, and Bulgaria, Israeli intelligence embedded military-grade explosives into pagers during production. This episode breaks down the extraordinary tradecraft: the brand licensing deception, the shell companies that actually did real business, and how Hezbollah's own procurement team unknowingly delivered the bombs. A masterclass in intelligence tradecraft that redefines what's possible in covert operations.