Ringing IVY BELLS
(Ringing IVY BELLS) Operation IVY BELLS was a top secret joint intelligence operation carried out by the CIA and the U.S. Navy. In essence, a modified nuclear submarine placed a "tap" on Soviet cables running under the Sea of Okhotsk that ran the strategic communications of the Soviet Far East fleets. The tap would monitor all traffic through those cables and, once a month, the submarine would return and retrieve the device and install a fresh one. The intelligence collected from IVY BELLS was significant but it was ultimately compromised by a dis-grunted NSA employee. The tap was recovered with great fanfare, the Soviets relishing the opportunity to embarrass the U.S. and Soviet nemesis, President Ronald Reagan. As of 1999, the IVY BELLS tap remains on display at a Moscow museum. Are there plans to display that Chinese balloon anywhere ? Probably just the opposite. One would think that the Biden Administration would be curious enough to examine the craft and. spe...