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Loading... Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionageby Sherry Sontag
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. TunstallSummerReads | May 15, 2008 |    An exciting, edge-of-your seat account of US submarine espionage operations from the end of World War II to the post-Cold War era. Meticulously researched and with excellent appendices, "Blind Man's Bluff" reads like a spy novel, divided into chapters that explain either a different incident or operation of Cold War submarine surveillance. (  )neilandlisa | Jun 5, 2007 | Submarine espionage (  )IraSchor | Apr 9, 2007 |  OK, having served on a nuke fast attack, it would be embarrasing if I did not read this. Great book on the submarines roll in the Cold War. My boat is actually mentioned! (USS Sargo), but only given a few sentences. I do know that the Sargo was one of the most decorated subs in the Navy, ironically, most of the commendations were classified. This is a very accurate glimspe of the Cold War navy. Great book and a must read for anyone interested in submarines. ( )meegeekai | Feb 5, 2007 | A quick read. Exciting. Interesting. Gives you a good sense of those unsung heroes of the Cold War who lived undersea while defending this conutry's borders and spying on the Soviet Union Forces. ( )berthirsch | Jul 28, 2006 | 0.071 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 006103004X, Mass Market Paperback)Little is known--and less has been published--about American submarine espionage during the Cold War. These submerged sentinels silently monitored the Soviet Union's harbors, shadowed its subs, watched its missile tests, eavesdropped on its conversations, and even retrieved top-secret debris from the bottom of the sea. In an engaging mix of first-rate journalism and historical narrative, Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew describe what went on."Most of the stories in Blind Man's Bluff have never been told publicly," they write, "and none have ever been told in this level of detail." Among their revelations is the most complete accounting to date of the 1968 disappearance of the U.S.S. Scorpion; the story of how the Navy located a live hydrogen bomb lost by the Air Force; and a plot by the CIA and Howard Hughes to steal a Soviet sub. The most interesting chapter reveals how an American sub secretly tapped Soviet communications cables beneath the waves. Blind Man's Bluff is a compelling book about the courage, ingenuity, and patriotism of America's underwater spies. --John J. Miller (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:11 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those
missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent achievement in investigative reporting. It
reads like a spy thriller -- except everything in it is true. This is an epic of adventure, ingenuity,
courage, and disaster beneath the sea, a story filled with unforgettable characters who
engineered daring missions to tap the enemy's underwater communications cables and to
shadow Soviet submarines. It is a story of heroes and spies, of bravery and tragedy. --from
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