Military Operations In History Part 2

#10. Project Arizona

The US government spent over $800 million in order to complete Project Azorian, which involved the recovery of K-129, a Soviet submarine that sank in 1968. The mission was undertaken in 1974 with the hopes of recovering everything on the submarine, which included a nuclear missile, documents, and top secret equipment. The Hugh Glomar Explorer, a mission-specific ship was also created to be used as the primary vessel for the mission.




#11. Acoutic Kitty

Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. This would allow the cats to innocuously record and transmit sound from its surroundings. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be addressed in another operation.


#12. Abu Omar Case

On February 17, 2003, the CIA captured the Imam of Milan, Abu Omar, and transferred him to Egypt. According to sources the Imam was tortured as a result of alleged connections to Islamists. After public outrage, however, Italian courts prosecuted over 26 CIA agents and many others for the events of February 17th.

#13. Project Fubelt

The US government under President Richard Nixon deployed the services and expertise of the CIA in manipulating the government of Chile by preventing Salvador Allende’s rise to power. Project Fubelt was to be executed by promoting a military coup and thus solidify the position of President Eduardo Frei Montalva.

#14.Operation Gold

Back in the 1950s, the American CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service had joined together in order to breach the Soviet Army’s defenses by tapping into their lines and having leaked information become a tool in determining the course of action. This was made possible with Operation Gold by creating a tunnel underneath the Soviet headquarters in Berlin and intercepting landline communications. However, before this mission even began, mole George Blake discovered the tunnel and foiled the mission.

#15.Operation Merlin

The objective of the mission was to create a fake and flawed nuclear blueprint and have it presented to the Iranians to delay their nuclear weapon creation. While everything seemed to be going according to plan, the mission failed when the Russian scientist who presented the plan was too smart for his own good and mistakenly pointed out the flaws to the enemy, thus accelerating the program even more.


#16. Project MKNaomi

MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/CIA research program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s. Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce. It is generally reported to be a successor to the MKDELTA project and to have focused on biological projects including biological warfare agents—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.

#17. Operation Mockingbird

Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence media beginning in the 1950s.






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