Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01H42F8YE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 381 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. And it reveals how the navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. A magnificent achievement in investigative reporting, it feels like a spy thriller but with one important difference: Everything in it is true.. Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the operations of the Clinton administration, it is an epic story of daring and deception. It takes us inside clandestine Washington meetings where top submarine captains briefed presidents and where the espionage war was planned one sub and one dangerous encounter at a time. It tells the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes and how it was doomed from the start. It unveils how the navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands los
Ozone Joe said Cold War Stories. As a kid who grew up watching ‘The Hunt For Red October’ as the Cold War was ending, I have always had a love for the idea of the silent hunters that patrol beneath the waves. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve tried to find stories about the Cold War days of sub jousting, on. "Be Proud of the Military" according to Terry McElroy. I was talking with a former sailor at Mardi Gras in Galveston and he was a submariner in the 1960's to 1990's and recommended the book. I bought it and it was very good. We so often focus on things of our family and business and do not pay enough attention to what is happening around us and . Spy Vs. Spy in Cold War Undersea Drama? frogman Better late than never since this Tom Clancy (novel) possible clone was published in the nineties. Anyhow it appears a few insiders (submariners) ) has reviewed and described this book in a most succulent manner but omitted out some important aspects of this deadly game of blind mans bluff i