Hezbollah is not known for their electronic counterespionage capabilities. Yet recently, the Associated Press said
the CIA’s operations in Lebanon had been impacted after Hezbollah
identified and captured a number of U.S. spies.
According to Robert Baer (TIME), Hezbollah have managed to aggressively went after the CIA in
Lebanon using telephone "link analysis" (LA). LA is an electronic
intelligence gathering that uses software capable of combing through
trillions of gigabytes of phone-call data in search for irregularities.
But (as usual) the actual truth behind the capture has not been made public. Regardless of the tactics used, this is definitely a cause for concern to the CIA. It seems that globalization and the rapid spread of sophisticated technologies have made espionage work much easier.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16153756
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