Operation Sun Rising was a Cold War military intelligence program run by the ISI or Pakistan during the late 1970s.
[1] In the 1970s, the program was launched when the ISI believed the President Jimmy Carter's administration was planning of sabotaging and infiltrating the highly clandestine atomic bomb projects.
[2] The program's purpose was to collect intelligence cycle on potential contingency plans of Carter administration sabotaging of certain bomb-related installations and facilities.
The program's existence was discovered by espionage investigative journalist, Ansar Abbasi of the News International in 2009.
[4] Since its discovery, the exact notion and nature of the program has been criticized by prominent news media of Pakistan.