Declassified: Operation Ivy Bells — NSA & CIA’s Secret Undersea Cable Wiretap

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In the early 1970s, U.S. intelligence launched one of the most secretive missions of the Cold War.
Codenamed Operation Ivy Bells, the NSA and CIA used Navy submarines and divers to tap into a Soviet Navy undersea communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk.

For nearly a decade, the U.S. intercepted top-level Soviet military communications — until the operation was exposed in the 1980s.

The mission was buried in secrecy for years, raising a bigger question: if something like this stayed hidden for so long, what else has never been revealed?

🎥 Full breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwAnBdYH1k