August 25, 2018
In 1972, the Navy Used a Very Special Spy Submarine to Wiretap the Russian Navy
Was it a success?
by Sebastien Roblin
Since 2015, there have been reports of Russian submarines and spy ships trawling the waters near the ocean-spanning underwater fiber-optic cables vital to trans-oceanic Internet access. In fact, reported activity by spy ship Yartar off the U.S. nuclear-armed submarine base in King’s Bay, Georgia is likely in search of secret military cables used exclusively by the Pentagon.
The Russians might be interested in hacking into those cables because the U.S. Navy pulled of such an exploit forty-six years earlier using a specially-modified spy submarine, a nuclear-powered wiretap, and some helium-swilling aquanauts.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/1972-navy-used-very-special-spy-submarine-wiretap-russian-navy-29762
