On a windswept island 50 miles (80.5km) north of Seattle sits a US Navy monitoring station. For years, it was kept busy tracking whale movements and measuring rising sea temperatures. Last October, the Navy gave the unit a new name that better reflects its current mission: Theater Undersea Surveillance Command. The renaming of the spy station at the Whidbey Island naval base is a nod to a much larger US military project, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans: Conducting the biggest reconstruction of America’s anti-submarine spy programme since the end of the Cold War. The revival of the ... (full story)