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Devices to message each other, all the while unknowingly sending carbon copies of their messages to law enforcement. authorities sa criminals used the platform to communicate about everything from trafficking drugs and weapons, even contract killings. >> we were able to actually see photographs of hundreds of tons of cocaine that were concealed in shipments of fruit. >> reporter: tonight law enforcements message to criminals around the world, be warned you could fall into the next trap. erin mcl...

Police. >> in reality the criminals were not underneath the radar, they were on it. the system is called anom. they made 12,000 available on the black market advertising them as secure encrypted devices. they use the devices to message each other. then sending carbon copies to the fbi. everything about drugs, weapons, and contract killings. >> we were able to see photographs of hundreds of tons of cocaine that were concealed in shipments of fruit. >> law enforcements message to criminals around ...

Were pushed out to more than 300 crime syndicates across the world. >> the criminals using these devices believed they were secretly planning crimes far beneath the radar of law enforcement. but in reality, the criminals were not underneath the radar, they were on it. >> reporter: the app allowing authorities to track the criminals every move. like this brick of cocaine, part of a shipment from carlsbad, california, bound for australia. and these drugs found in bogota, housed in cases of bananas...

Three years, this operation has been undercover. australian law enforcement has been arresting and charging offenders and we have stopped tons of drugs coming ashore. overnight we saw multiple offices deploying, and a long arm of the afp has to get longer so we can keep australian safe at home and develop the next ironside. already to have been over 200 offenders who have been charged, and the charges laid amount— charged, and the charges laid amount to over 500. there have been _ amount to ov...

Polices own intelligence division was aware of the threat but didnt even tell their own officers, who were reporting for duty that very day. during the insurrection, more than a third of the capitol police difficult disturbance units didnt have the right protective gear, leaving so many of them to fight armed protesters in their regular uniforms. communication basically unexisted. and was officer says, "i was horrified that no deputy chief or above was on the radio or helping us. for hours the s...

Were pushed out to more than 300 crime syndicates around the world. >> the criminals using these devices believe they were secretly planning crimes far beneath the radar of law enforcement. but in reality, the criminals were not underneath the radar, they were on it. >> reporter: the app allowing authorities to track the criminals every move. like this brick of cocaine, part of a shipment from carlsbad, california, bound for australia. and these drugs found in bogota, housed in cases of bananas....

This is bbc news. the headlines at 11am: former police officer wayne couzens has pleaded guilty at the old bailey to the kidnapping and rape of 33—year—old sarah everard. a massive crackdown on global crime — after the fbi created a secure—messaging app and got criminals around the world to use it, revealing their hidden activities — leading to hundreds of arrests, the seizure of tons of drugs and hundreds of millions of pounds and acting on over 100 threats to life. we were able to ac...

♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with robyn curnow. the fbi had a hand in whats being called the sting of the century down under. they seized 4 tons of drugs and $45 million in cash in a massive crackdown on organized crime. a global law enforcement team had been working on the operation called iron side for three years. they developed an encrypted app used by alleged criminals to communicate, but it also gave law enforcement an all access pass to their dealings. ...

Not told in the skiff that there was a threat, the skiff is that room that those with clearances go to, there is no threat. and in this case the threat was this plain sight. people were speaking about it, it was in social media. but the government did not take it serious. we had a failure in government that day to interpret those as threats. and as a result of that, people kept looking for the fbi to say this is intelligence. well, intelligence is based on information that you gather to see what...

Were able to pass as white worked their way into assimilating into the middle class. and it wasnt until 1952 that you would be a naturalized citizen without discrimination. >> so what do you do when that box comes up? like, i mean -- >> panic, first of all. >> you know, i am an american. i was born here. i didnt grow up here. i grew up in kuwait with a white american mother that comes with tons and tons of privilege. so i come here and i have to see how im perceived. and the number one way im pe...