December 12, 2018
Meet the Halibut: The Navy Submarine That Pulled Off the Ultimate Russia Spy Operation
And other subs followed.
by Sebastien Roblin
In 1972, the Captain James Bradley of the Office of Naval Intelligence thought of a new use for the Halibut.
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/meet-halibut-navy-submarine-pulled-ultimate-russia-spy-operation-38567
