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	Spy Book Fact of the Day: Ivy Bells
		U.S. Navy operation to plant an intercept device on a Soviet underwater communications cable at a depth of some 400 feet in the Sea of Okhotsk.
		The bug was placed on the cable by the U.S. nuclear-propelled submarine Halibut, which also replaced the tapes from the start of the operation until 1976, when the nuclear-propelled submarine Parche took on the job.
		Ivy Bells continued until 1981 when U.S. satellite photos showed Soviet salvage ships working over the exact spot where the intercept pod had been attached to the seafloor cable.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/spybook/spy/961219.html (274 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		For this operation, the frogmen would depart the sub's escape trunk, swim to the cable (reportedly with the aid of a minisub on occasion), remove the recorded tape, and then make their way back to the waiting submarine.
		A major, but covert, investigation ended in with a startling revelation: This operation (along with at least seven other code-word operations) had been betrayed to the KGB in January 1980 by Robert Pelton, an employee of the National Security Agency for the sum of $35,000.
		Operation Ivy Bells remains one of the most successful intelligence gathering operations in modern U.S. history, and could not have been accomplished without the daring and skill of U.S. Navy submarine officers and crew - and a handful of Navy frogmen.
	www.specialoperations.com /Operations/ivybells.html (715 words)

	U.S. ponders name for likely war against Iraq : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Operation Niagara in Vietnam was so named because the commander wanted people to think of relentlessly cascading bombs.
		Operation Killer during the Korean War was a dud.
		Through the decades there have been operations Bluehearts (Korea, the landing at Inchon), Ivy Bells (undersea snooping on the Soviets) and Carolina Moon (a deadly and unsuccessful mission to blow up a bridge in North Vietnam).
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1582015 (790 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Body of Secrets" by James Bamford
		Operations like Shamrock were exposed for the first time, but Bamford also spent a lot of pages simply explaining how the NSA was organized.
		Operation Ivy Bells was the agency's most secret operation at the time, but Bamford found the man in charge of it to be very open and cooperative.
		Inside the NSA's B2 Operations Building, there is a monument of fl granite with the words "They Served in Silence" and the names of the 152 military and civilian eavesdroppers who have died, most of them on ships and planes, peeking up the electronic skirts of our adversaries.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/04/25/nsa/print.html (2106 words)

	Military.com Content
		At the beginning of the 1970's, divers from the specially-equipped submarine, USS Halibut (SSN 587), left their decompression chamber to start a bold and dangerous mission, code named "Ivy Bells".
		The Americans continued their operations undetected until 1981, when one day, surveillance satellites showed a number of Soviet warships, including a salvage ship, anchored over the undersea cable.
		He sold the secret of Operation Ivy Bell for $35,000, which ended nearly a decade of espionage.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_f_ivybells (460 words)

	Operation Ivy Bells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Ivy Bells, was a US Navy and CIA mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War.
		The recording device was built by ATandT's Bell Laboratories, and was powered by a tiny nuclear generator.
		Reportedly, Ronald Pelton received only a total of $35,000 from KGB for the intelligence he provided from 1980 to 1983, and the intelligence of the Operation Ivy Bells KGB paid him for was $5,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells (635 words)

	Operation Mincemeat - Military Images Photos Pictures Forums
		Operation Mincemeat was an Ingenious British deception operation during World War II to make the German High Command believe that the Allies would invade the Balkans in mid-1943 instead of Sicily, the real objective.
		The operation called for making the Germans believe that they had, by accident, intercepted highly confidential documents that foretold Allied war plans.
		As you say, it was a complete success, and a lot of Axis troops were withdrawn from their positions in Southern Italy and Sicily as a result of the subtrefuge.
	www.militaryimages.net /forums/showthread.php?t=42 (575 words)

	dailywireless.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sanswire’s Stratellites are advanced rigid composite lighter-than-air vehicles, designed to operate as unmanned autonomous or remotely piloted systems at stratospheric altitudes, using solar power to provide “persistence” in geostationary locations.
		Operating at 12-13 miles from earth, with payload capacities measured in tons, and the ability to return to its base station on command, it may be a cost-effective delivery system for broadband voice, data and video services, as well as big brother monitoring platforms.
		The RFP was sponsored by SmartRiverside, a 501(c)3, which will operate the Digital Divide Program and serve as a High Technology Economic Development attraction.
	www.dailywireless.org /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=142 (3982 words)

	Military.com
		That means special operations teams may soon operate in countries where the local government may not be informed of their presence.
		In "Operation Ivy Bells", which started in the early 1970s, Navy SEALs tapped Russian communications lines in the Sea of Okhotsk with a recording device, and returned to check the recordings regularly over the course of a decade, dodging the Russian navy and sound detection devices along the way.
		Cannistraro saw the move towards a military role in operations outside Afghanistan as a rebuke to the CIA, which has aligned itself with the State Department and expressed doubts about the viability of a war on Iraq.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_ops_082702,00.html (1403 words)

	Ivy Fox
		Ivy peered around the desk and said, “James?” She thought the voice was that of fellow team member and her partner on many cases, James Durbin.
		Ivy pressed a button on the pillar, which scanned her fingerprint and compared it to the databank, causing the 200-year-old drawbridge to come down.
		Ivy turned to the anxious table, took a deep breath to calm her anger, and said, “That was Gregory.
	www.geocities.com /chiku52983/ivyfox.html (17914 words)

	Conflict Studies Journal at the University of New Brunswick
		That is because they were used for stand-alone operations or as mere adjuncts to conventional operations, rather than as the keys to unlock doors to strategic success.
		The book shows that not only the special operators, who might well be excused, but also the people whose business it is to think about what good the use of force might do are concerned with anything and everything but the connection between military operations and the results thereof.
		And because the bombers and the bank robbers and the cop killers operated across state lines, the American people had every reason to expect that the premier national law enforcement agency would be on the case.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/JCS/bin/get.cgi?directory=FALL98/&filename=Review.htm (9874 words)

	Oshkosh b' Gosh - Kaedrin Weblog
		Operation Ivy Bells was a 1970s U.S. Navy and NSA plot to bug Soviet underwater communications cables in the Sea of Okhotsk*.
		The wildly successful cable tapping operations in the Okhotsk was eventually discovered by the Soviets in the early 1980s.
		It was originally thought that the discovery was caused by a U.S. submarine mishap in which a sub fell on the cable (ahem), but when all the intelligence was analyzed, that explanation just didn't fit.
	kaedrin.com /weblog/archive/000740.html (544 words)

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		Their is a secret base in the UK at Chicksands which is operated by the NSA and DODJOCC, It's purpose is to collect and intercept Soviet and Warsaw Pact air force communications, and also to collect ILC and "NDC" (Non-US Diplomatic Communications).
		The satelites where operated from remote ground installations in Austrailia and implemented parabolic antenna which where able to unfold once in orbit, initially the satelites intercepted transmisisons from the VHF radio band.
		Advanced specch recognition systems can be produced to operate on a mass scale basis, whereas a subjects voice patterns can be programmed into such a device, which will then hunt that particular voice patter down on a given set of telephone channels.
	files.pig-monkey.com /text/comint.txt (4880 words)

	OPERATION CASTLE - 1954
		Operation Castle was a series of high yield thermonuclear weapon design tests.
		Following the initial experimental demonstration of the Teller-Ulam principles in Operation Ivy (the Sausage device detonated in the Ivy Mike test) both weapon labs rushed to develop a number of deliverable weaponized designs.
		The entire Bikini Atoll was contaminated to varying degrees, and many operation Castle personnel were subsequently over-exposed as a result.
	www.radiochemistry.org /history/nuke_tests/castle (2578 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		Renowned for their prowess at strategic warfare, intelligence operations and antisubmarine tactics, our sub fleets are expanding their missions and delivering vastly improved capabilities to the fleet.
		Three specially modified subs, the USS Halibut, the second USS Seawolf and, later, the USS Parche, collected tapes from the recording device until 1981, when the operation — code-named Ivy Bells — was revealed by Ronald Pelton, a former National Security Agency analyst and Soviet spy.
		Nonetheless, Ivy Bells was one of the most successful intelligence operations in U.S. history.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/feb_05_03.php (622 words)

	AlterNet: Another Reason to Hate Henry Kissinger
		Woodward and the Post first learned of this project in 1985, but they decided not to publish a story on Ivy Bells, for they were not sure the operation had been compromised.
		After Pelton was arrested in November of that year, the Post determined that he had blabbed about Ivy Bells to the Soviets and that the Soviets had captured the eavesdropping device.
		The operating assumption: we may be on different sides, but we're still on the same team -- and never more so than on those occasions when we send a member of the "permanent establishment," as our dear friend Henry calls it, to that place of true and complete permanence.
	www.alternet.org /story/11237 (1754 words)

	WorldNetDaily: 'Americans see through blind eyes'
		Among those named by Major were Alger Hiss, a top adviser to FDR and secretary general of the founding conference of the United Nations, and Harry Dexter White, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, considered one of the brightest minds in Roosevelt's New Deal.
		Major spoke about the Navy operation named "Ivy Bells," which had been top secret until 1997, and was "one of the deepest secrets I ever saw," Major said.
		The operation, which cost several millions of dollars and risked the lives of American sailors, was betrayed by one individual, National Security Agency employee Robert Pelton, who sold the secrets to Russia for $35,000.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23006 (1006 words)

	Military.com Content
		Greatest Battle Never Fought -- The invasion of the Japanese home islands promised to be the largest and costliest amphibious assault in history, but the atomic bomb reduced Operation Downfall to a footnote.
		Operation Ivy Bells -- Off the Soviet coast, U.S. submarines maintained a sensitive eavesdropping mission, only to be sold out by espionage.
		Operation Vittles -- More than fifty years ago, a massive airlift into Berlin showed the Soviets that a post-WWII blockade would not work.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_overview (913 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Inside the NSA
		Hanssen was arrested February 18, 2001, and is accused of spying for the former Soviet Union and Russia since 1985.
		He was convicted of two counts of espionage and one count of conspiracy and sentenced to three concurrent life sentences.
		One of the secrets Pelton passed to the Soviets was information that compromised "Operation Ivy Bells," a top-secret operation in which a listening device was attached to Soviet undersea communication lines.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/nsa/stories/traitor/index.html (947 words)

	Ivy Walls, Book 1, Chapter 2 by Richard Leland
		As it latched, silencing the screaming, shouting students, raucous cheers, and off-color songs from the next car, he got a whiff of the smell of coal, burning wood and steam from the engine.
		She appeared to be tiring and as he looked closely at her face, she seemed to be becoming more transparent.
		He understood she tried to keep his mind off his operation, and operation he knew nothing about.
	www.southwest.net /ragfiction/ivy2.htm (1801 words)

	CNN - Content
		One of the secrets Pelton passed to the Soviets was information that compromised "Operation Ivy Bells," a top-secret operation in which a listening device was attached to Soviet undersea communication lines to record Soviet communications.
		Tipped off by a Russian double agent, the FBI launched a sting operation of Pitts in 1995 in which agents posing as his Russian handlers paid Pitts $65,000 in exchange for classified FBI information.
		Following a sting operation, he was arrested by the FBI in Tampa, Florida, on June 14, 2000.
	www.cnn.com /interactive/us/0102/spy.cases/content.html (1970 words)

	TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 21. Poison Ivy. David L. Kirp. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Along comes Angela Argo, and Swenson's seduced--not by her appearance (she's "a skinny, pale redhead with neon-orange and lime-green streaks in her hair and a delicate sharp-featured face pierced in a half-dozen places") but by her skill as a writer.
		Angela turns out to be as complicated as a Swiss watch and as vampiric as Lestrade, but even as the alarm bells sound, Swenson's too far gone to listen.
		If philosophy is to avoid the same fate, it must sell itself--literally, by opening up a storefront operation in close and, as it turns out, intimate proximity to a massage parlor.
	www.prospect.org /print/V11/21/kirp-d.html (2269 words)

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	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Once during the Reagan administration, we were battling the CIA, the NSA, and the White House about a story called "Ivy Bells." The Russians had learned from an American spy about a super top secret diving bell which we had invented to clamp onto underwater Soviet cables.
		The feds were about to lose their fight to keep all of this out of the paper when they pulled out their secret weapon, the big kahuna himself, the president of these United States.
		President, she says, and the president starts telling her about operation Ivy Bells which neither one of them had ever heard of before that day.
	www.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0107/23/se.04.html (6527 words)

	Falls Church News-Press
		Whether or not the reporters who wrote the story will eventually be required to reveal their anonymous sources, or go to jail, as in the Judith Miller-Valerie Plame Wilson case, will depend largely on whether the government's eavesdropping is deemed to have been legal or illegal.
		More than one paper was asked not to publish the story of "Ivy Bells," an operation tapping into underwater cables in Russian harbors that carried vital information on Soviet submarines.
		I was asked by the Israelis not to reveal the existence of their airlift of Ethiopian Jews out of Africa some decades ago when I was foreign editor of The Boston Globe.
	www.fcnp.com /546/classified.htm (613 words)

	Echelon & related Data Interception Capabilities 2000
		Russia's FAPSI operates large ground collection sites at Lourdes, Cuba and at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.(26) Germany's BND and France's DGSE are alleged to collaborate in the operation of a COMSAT collection site at Kourou, Guyana, targeted on "American and South American satellite communications".
		The Okhotsk cable tapping operation continued for ten years, involving routine trips by three different specially equipped submarines to collect old pods and lay new ones; sometimes, more than one pod at a time.
		One of the IVY BELLS pods is now on display in the Moscow museum of the former KGB.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Shuttle/5604/data1.html (3936 words)

	injusticebusters 2003 > > Bruce Schneier: Review of Bamford book which includes "Operation Northwoods"
		Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
		The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
		Even after Lemnitzer was gone, he writes, the Joint Chiefs continued to plan "pretext" operations at least through 1963.
	injusticebusters.com /2003/Operation_Northwoods.htm (3656 words)

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