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2025-09-27 News & Politics
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Investigating Covert Operations: Fake Kidnappings, Assassinations, and Explosive Pagers

Uncover the true stories behind a failed U.S. veteran's fake kidnapping plot against North Korea and Israel’s devastating deception against Hezbollah using explosive pagers.

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  • Christopher Anne faces potential extradition to Spain for orchestrating a staged embassy raid intended to aid North Korean defectors.
  • Israeli Mossad spent a decade planting remote-detonated bombs inside pagers, successfully targeting thousands of Hezbollah fighters.
  • An FBI undercover operative details his immersion into Al-Qaeda, stopping plots targeting passenger trains and major U.S. cities.

This report synthesizes three high-stakes covert actions spanning geopolitics and terrorism. Readers will gain insight into the motives, operational tradecraft, and dangerous consequences faced by individuals engaging directly with state-level adversaries and terrorist networks. This information offers crucial context on modern intelligence warfare tactics.

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From 2024, Sharyn Alfonsi’s report on a U.S. Marine veteran who says he was part of a failed fake kidnapping plot designed to help North Koreans in Spain defect. From 2025, Lesley Stahl’s report on how Israel's Mossad tricked Hezbollah into buying explosive pagers. From 2017, Scott Pelley’s interview with an FBI undercover operative who infiltrated Al Qaeda. #news #northkorea #middleeast "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected] 0:00 Intro 0:11 A Web of Intrigue (Part 1) 14:41 A Web of Intrigue (Part 2) 26:10 The Pager Plot 39:32 Inside Al-Qaeda

Top Comments (10)

@Jmoneyjc 2025-09-27

The first story is crazy. Af

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@LarryParamedic1 2025-10-03

Guy from L.A., Thank You for your hard work.

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@AndreasNortham 2025-09-28

"they got a good price" LMAO

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@shawnebaby99 2025-10-22

Nothing like telling North Korea what your plans are.

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@alternative2104 2025-12-02

I'm addicted to 60 minutes. I think I have a problem.

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@ericnewman254 2026-03-14

That assassination was crazy! Just rubbing a chemical in his eyes killed him..

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@chunwong7205 2026-03-24

Han Sol, living on his own is now Han Solo.

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@Nofactshere 2026-03-27

I can't believe they're charging them.

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@Zuzu14568 2026-02-16

I hope he is safe 🙏🏾. Brave man

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@N108funshow 2026-04-02

14:18 You act surprised? Give that man a crayon! 🖍️

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