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Operation Ivy Bells

espionage mission of the USA directed to the Soviet Union
Event Wiretapping Q6149457

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
wiretapping, covert operation[3]
Inception
1971[6]
Country
United States[2]
Location
Sea of Okhotsk[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 57.600°, 155.700°
Participant
United States Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, USS Halibut[7][8][9][10]
Significant person
Ronald Pelton, Vitaly Yurchenko[11][12]
Target
Soviet Union[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ivy Bells en Operation Ivy Bells fr Opération Ivy Bells it Operazione Ivy Bells ja アイヴィー・ベル pl Operacja Ivy Bells pt Operação Ivy Bells ru Операция «Ivy Bells» uk Операція «Березка» uk Операція «Берізка» zh 常春藤鈴行動
🔖 Identifiers · 1
Freebase ID
/m/05mkv0

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🔗 Connections
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
wiretapping
Target 1
Soviet Union
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Summary

Operation Ivy Bells is a wiretapping[1].

Related Entities

United States

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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · IntensionalLogician · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → 1971
    Instance of → wiretapping, covert operation
    Country → United States
    Target → Soviet Union
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Instance of: covert operation"
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