During the Vietnam War, Soviet 'AGI' vessels, ostensibly fishing trawlers but heavily fitted with antennas and sensors, routinely trailed U.S. Navy carrier task forces to monitor flight operations and radio traffic. This photograph, taken from USS Ticonderoga, captures one such Soviet intelligence-collection trawler running parallel to the task force while an American warship holds station in the distance, a quiet but persistent reminder of Cold War tensions playing out alongside the shooting war in Southeast Asia. Project: 218135