Israeli Intelligence and the Hezbollah pagers

Following a speech made by Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, where he denounced the use of cellphones - calling them Israel’s “agent” ordered officers to refrain from communicating any details concerning Hezbollah’s movements and plans through cell phones. 

Due to the belief that "low tech" pagers could not be "compromised", Nasrallah ordered Hezbollah officers to carry pagers at all times so as to remain in constant contact and thereby promoted a more comprehensive use of pagers. 

The first small batch order placed with the Hungarian company "BAC Consulting KFT" who "merely served as a broker" forwarded the order to Global NORTA, a company based in Sofia, Bulgaria, who "was responsible for manufacturing as well as exporting the pagers to Lebanon in 2022, so as to NOT constitute a serious violation of European Union laws. 

Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese firm, said it had authorized BAC Consulting to use its name on the pagers that were used in the first attack, but that the Hungarian company was responsible for manufacturing and design.

After there arrival they were tested and placed in service and more orders for BAC manufactured pagers were reportedly placed by operatives of the Lebanese terrorist organization.

According to the New York Times, who cited two American "intelligence officials". "Since his speech, there was a significant increase in shipments of pagers to Lebanon, with thousands reportedly arriving and being distributed to Hezbollah officers and their allies." 

"According to multiple reports, the pagers were set to beep, prompting their owners to see what message Hezbollah’s command sent, only to explode a few seconds later, sowing chaos across Lebanon."Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions, social media posts, electronic communications, news footage, and medical records, linking them all to people who had these pagers today." 

The reported injuries and deaths of the Hezbollah terrorists are unimportant, what IS important is that Israeli intelligence just created a massive and growing "treasure trove" of information about both known and previously unknown Hezbollah terrorists, as well as their supporters, partners, friends, family members, colleagues, workplaces, vehicles, and homes. 

Israeli intelligence recently created an incredibly dense, comprehensive in depth and "up-to-date" social graph of an entire terrorist network, across Lebanon as well as neighboring countries. It is incredible what our Israeli intelligence has accomplished.

Imagine a dark room with a massive Christmas tree in it. The tree has thousands of electric lights hung all over it, but they’re unlit because the wall plug is not plugged into the wall socket.

However once plugged in and used, each of these pagers began to function as a GPS tracking device for days or weeks prior to this attack. 

Israeli intelligence has been monitoring all of them for sometime now accumulating information not "just" where they live but where they congregate and who they congregate with as well as their locations. Through the "BAC" pagers Israeli Intelligence could tract where they went so as to identify who the people are that they worked together with.

By this method Israeli intelligence could identify the operators of the weapons systems and thereby ALL the locations of underground tunnels where the Hezbollah rockets and launchers are. 

Before the IDF starts our massive operation against Hezbollah, undoubtedly they will be programming the GPS coordinates of those locations directly into our firing systems

These pagers have provided a treasure trove of open source intelligence available on the faces and identities of all the people who were hit as well as many, who were never in possession of a pager.

IAF drones and our satellite system are monitoring the entrances to every hospital and recording video and photos of all who are entering and exiting. Our special intelligence units are also monitoring all social media as well as CCTV systems.

As a reminder of our capabilities, remember the story of  Yahya Abd-al-Latif Ayyash was the chief bombmaker of Hamas earned the nickname "the Engineer"

Following the lead of the story of dealing with the "Engineer" in 1996. The Mossad was able to learn of Nasarallah's order to acquire new pagers and "insert" small quantities of one of the most powerful explosive chemicals known as (PETN) Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate before they even arrived in the Hands of Hezbollah members in February. 

The stealthy design of the battery comprised a thin, square sheet with six grams of white pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive  inserted between two rectangular battery cells with the remaining space between the battery cells occupied by a strip of highly flammable material that acted as the detonator.

Along with the PETN, remote satelite activated GPS "responders" were embed in the printed circuit board, allowing Israeli Intelligence to remotely tract and monitor the devices as well as overheat and detonate the Lithium Battery within the device.

The agents who designed the pagers put a battery that concealed a tiny yet powerful charge of plastic explosive and a novel detonator that an X-ray couldn't detect. From the outside, the pager’s power source looked like a standard lithium-ion battery pack used in thousands of consumer electronics goods.

And yet, the battery, labelled LI-BT783, had a problem: Like the pager, it did not exist on the market.

So Israel’s agents created a backstory from scratch.

Additional information (facts) about the company that sold the beepers to Hezbollah from Open Source Intel @Osint613 

- According to the Hungarian company registry, it turns out that the Hungarian company **BAC Consulting KFT**, which manufactured the beepers for Hezbollah, was only established in 2022 and reached a turnover of one million euros in just two years.

- The domain was purchased in 2020, two years before the company was founded.

- The domain previously belonged to another company that offered a jewelry line for sale, called “Nelkhael,” after the 21st angel from a list of 72 angels in Kabbalah. .

- The company's website is filled with generic photos. It claims to specialize in various consulting fields, including environment, development, and international relations. It is unclear with whom the company has worked or what its experience is.

- The company's official address is a private residence in Budapest.

- The owner of the company, and apparently its only employee (according to the website), is Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, a 49-year-old Hungarian-Italian businesswoman, who has an impressive and maintained LinkedIn profile. 

However, it is filled with posts irrelevant to her work and not typical for LinkedIn.

"Christina herself, and her background, are shrouded in inconsistencies and suspicions. The places she claimed to have worked don’t exist, and their websites are nowhere to be found. She personally denied any connection to the production of pagers in a statement to NBC, also refuting the claim by the Taiwanese "Gold Apollo" brand that she had received permission only to use their trademark, while all manufacturing and design were handled by her company." Zeev Avrahami, Budapest

There are only 3-4 pictures of her on the internet, which is very unusual.

- The other employees listed in the company have strange names, fake profiles, or are actual people who do not work for the company.

- Cristiana's LinkedIn profile was created in 2019.

- Her picture is also being used by another company, suggesting it may have been a fake picture.

- The other company also appears fake, and its phone number is disconnected.

The company's website was blocked this morning, now requiring a username and password to access.

Attempts to call the company or Cristiana have gone unanswered.