The U.S. Secretly Tapped a Soviet Underwater Cable for Years. Then Someone Sold the Secret.
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Operation Ivy Bells had a 20-foot listening device hooked up to a remote Soviet underwater cable for a decade before an ex-NSA agent found himself in debt. It was a brazen act of espionage. An American wiretap on a Soviet underwater cable during the Cold War reaped untold amounts of information for …
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