American secret project “Ivy Bells”: maximum hopes - minimum results
Reconstruction of the chronology of the covert operation of the installation of the automatic technical reconnaissance device (eavesdropping device) “Cocoon” on the submarine cable of the Soviet communication line, which received the code name “Project” Ivy Bells “in the US National Security Agency, is presented. The operation was carried out in the 1960s - 1980s. jointly by the CIA, Navy intelligence and the US National Security Agency, the American side still seems to be very successful and fruitful. In the opinion of Soviet experts, although the leakage of information was, it was not so important, since information and data were transmitted over a cable using communication secret equipment. As a result of the organization of successful countermeasures, Soviet intelligence acquired an important agent from among the employees of the US NSA.