Secret Service dismantles telecom threat around U.N.

NEW YORK — While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.

What You Need To Know • The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York • Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls • The cache included over 300 SIM servers with more than 100,000 SIM cards • It was located within 35 miles of the United Nations • The network could have blacked out cellular service, especially during the United Nations G