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Ex-Mossad chief says pager operations extend to 'every country you can imagine'

Yossi Cohen claims on The Brink podcast he invented the "equipment manipulation" method in the Mossad, revealing its real scope, and its use as early as 2006

Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen: “Operations with ‘embedded modified equipment’ are conducted in every country you can possibly imagine”

Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen, who led the operation to seize the Iranian nuclear archive, has for the first time detailed the scale of Israel’s “equipment manipulation” program — a technology for secretly embedding into opponents’ supply chains that allows ordinary communication devices to be turned into tools for surveillance or sabotage.

In The Brink podcast, Cohen stated that the method of “embedded (modified) equipment” was personally invented by him between 2002 and 2004 and was first used during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. “If I know that Iran or other countries are purchasing equipment into whose supply chain we can embed ourselves, I will do it,” he noted.

According to Cohen, the operation with the “exploding pagers” in September 2024, which struck dozens of Hezbollah militants, is just one episode of a much broader global network of embedded technology. “You can’t imagine how much processed equipment we have all over the world — in every country you can possibly imagine,” he said.

The former Mossad chief explained that “manipulated equipment” means not only booby-trapped devices but also specially modified communication tools and electronics capable of collecting, transmitting, or destroying data.

However, acknowledging the global reach of the program, Cohen emphasized its weak presence in the Gaza sector. According to Cohen, if similar systems had been embedded within Hamas structures, the events of October 7 could have been prevented:

“If we had that, we would have known what they were preparing. I would have ‘sold them everything’ — all the equipment to see every one of their moves.”

Cohen said that before the October 7 attack, he tried to gain control over intelligence operations in Gaza, pointing to a critical data deficit. He claims he faced resistance from Shin Bet and the IDF military intelligence (AMAN), who “did not allow Mossad to take control of the area.”

‘We can handle it ourselves, don’t teach us.’ But everyone knew the intelligence level was insufficient,” he said.

Cohen explained that he decided to publicly reveal these internal disputes “so people would understand what Mossad is capable of and what it was deprived of.”

Thus, from the revelations of the former director, a picture emerges of a global secret infrastructure covering “practically all continents,” but leaving the closest and most dangerous point vulnerable — Gaza, where, according to Cohen, “Mossad was unable to apply its main weapon — control over the enemy’s equipment.”

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