Operation Ivy Bells: The Cold War's Most Audacious Spy Mission
Автор: Apex Engineering
Загружено: 2025-10-28
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In the 1970s, the USS Halibut did the impossible. It snuck 400 feet beneath the Sea of Okhotsk, one of the Soviet Union's most secure bastions, to install a secret tap on a KGB communications cable. The mission, Operation Ivy Bells, was a total success, as the Soviets, in their hubris, hadn't even encrypted the line.
This Cold War documentary explores the "Beast" pod, the saturation divers who installed it, and the "treasure trove" of intelligence it gathered. But the multi-billion dollar program was ultimately undone by a single NSA traitor, Ronald Pelton, who was drowning in debt.
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Learn how Pelton sold one of America's greatest secrets for just $35,000, how the Soviets recovered the pod, and how the betrayal was finally uncovered years later by defector Vitaly Yurchenko, sparking a frantic FBI mole hunt.
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