Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.

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THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed.

But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested.

THE NEW YORK TIMES




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