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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag

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WOW! Fantastic book on submarines in the cold war. Great depiction of life aboard diesel subs, too. ( )
  msharvey | Nov 13, 2009 |
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information
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
Amazon.com
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  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 |
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Epigraph
After all, submarining has always been a game of blind man's bluff. - A top submarine admiral
And every man on board knew,
When the going got rough,
In this game of "Blind Man's Bluff,"
Somehow he'd pull her through.

Lyrics from "The Ballad of Whity Mack,"an ode to a submarine captain by Tommy Cox, submariner and spook
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To the men who lived these tales, and especially to those who shared them with us.
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You gotta be nuts," Harris M. Austin Grumbled under his breath as he watched the ugliest-looking piece of junk he had ever seen pull into the British naval base in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
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Contents:

1. A Deadly Beginning

2. Whiskey A-Go-Go

3. Turn to the deep

4. Velvet Fist

5. Death of a Submarine

6. "The Ballad of Whitey Mack"

7. "Here She Comes..."

8. "Oshkosh B'Gosh"

9. The $500 Million Sand Castle

10. Triumph and Crisis

11. The Crown Jewels

12. Trust but Verify

Epilogue

Appendix A

Appendix B

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Acknowledgments

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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

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