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A tale of FBI trickery, organized crime, fake phones and millions of spilled secrets Acting U.S. Atty. Randy Grossman speaks at a news conference Tuesday in San Diego. (Denis Poroy / Associated Press) Print The full extent of an unprecedented FBI effort to beat the criminal underworld at its own encrypted-communications game became clearer Tuesday following a two-day takedown, with some 800 arrests worldwide and San Diego racketeering indictments against 17 high-level targets, according to federal authorities. Dubbed Operation Trojan Shield, the effort was largely led by FBI agents and federal prosecutors in San Diego who covertly created a closed-loop encryption cellphone service, called ANØM, and then relied on trusted voices already embedded in criminal syndicates to distribute the customized phones.

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