BEIRUT: Two Hezbollah members have confessed to working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and a third had links to an as-yet-undetermined foreign intelligence service, the group’s leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Friday, admitting for the first time the penetration of one of the most secretive organizations in the region.

“When Israel failed to infiltrate Hezbollah’s structure, it requested the assistance of the most powerful intelligence agency,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech broadcast by Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television Friday night.

“We have two cases of spies affiliated with the CIA and one more might be affiliated with the CIA, European intelligence or Mossad,” he added.

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