The Hunt: Israeli intelligence penetrates Hezbollah

Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and the Hamas militants who run the Gaza Strip, launched dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday night. On Wednesday, Israel intelligence pressed forward, vowing to retaliate for Iran’s ballistic missile attack a day earlier, the region braced for further escalation.

On this episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green”, Fred Burton, former deputy chief of the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, says the way they did it was shocking.

US security expert Fred Burton speaks with WTOP National Security correspondent J.J. Green

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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J.J. Green

JJ Green is WTOP's National Security Correspondent. He reports daily on security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism and cyber developments, and provides regular on-air and online analysis. He is also the host of two podcasts: Target USA and Colors: A Dialogue on Race in America.

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