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Migrants are brought aboard a Save the Children rescue boat

Inside Italy’s plot to infiltrate migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean

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Our reporter was invited on a migrant rescue trip organized by Save the Children. Unbeknownst to everyone on the boat, including us, he wasn’t the only person aboard working for someone else.

A woman is helped by medical staff abroad the Italian Navy vessel Vega at the Reggio Calabria harbor, southern Italy, May 29, 2016.

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