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  2. Operation Ivy Bells - Wikipedia

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    During the Cold War, the United States wanted to learn more about Soviet submarine and missile technology, specifically ICBM test and nuclear first strike capability.. In the early 1970s the U.S. government learned of the existence of an undersea communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, which connected the major Soviet Pacific Fleet naval base at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula to ...

  3. USS Halibut (SSGN-587) - Wikipedia

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    The underwater tapping of a Soviet communication line running from the Kamchatka peninsula west to the Soviet mainland in the Sea of Okhotsk (Operation Ivy Bells) Surveying sunken Soviet submarine K-129 in August 1968, prior to the CIA's Project Azorian .

  4. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine ...

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    Several operations are described in the book, such as the use of USS Parche to tap Soviet undersea communications cables and USS Halibut to do the same in Operation Ivy Bells. [1] The book also contains an extensive list of collisions between Western and Soviet submarines and U.S. submarine awards.

  5. Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted, sparking ... - AOL

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    The C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in this file image from October 2015. - Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images/FILE

  6. Suspected sabotage of European undersea cables shows just how ...

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    In 2017, the US admiral in charge of NATO's submarine forces said the alliance was "seeing Russian underwater activity in the vicinity of undersea cables that I don't believe we have ever seen."

  7. Transatlantic cables incident - Wikipedia

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    The 1884 Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables was the first international compact to deal with underwater cables. [8] It proscribes breakage or damage of such cables — except by belligerents engaged in open war — and permits the naval forces of state parties to engage in certain enforcement actions against suspected offenders.

  8. Cable-slicing ships show Russia pressing on a Western ... - AOL

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    Russia is accused of using aging tankers to damage undersea cables. Analysts say it gives the cover of plausible deniability. But it's a method that also comes with risks. A series of apparent ...

  9. USS Seawolf (SSN-575) - Wikipedia

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    The submarine transited the Panama Canal on 17 November and changed operational control to Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet. In the Pacific, Seawolf would serve as a "spy submarine", trailing other submarines, retrieving test weapons from the seabed, and tapping Soviet submarine communications cables. [11]