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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.984
EAN: 9780061030048
ISBN: 006103004X
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 1999-10
Publisher: HarperTorch
Release Date: October 06, 1999
Studio: HarperTorch
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Editorial Review:
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
Includes a new afterword describing submariners' responses and reactions and a new appendix of all award-winning subs honored for service in Cold War espionage operations.With 16 pages of black-and-white photos
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Runs deep
This book, along with a clutch of mass-market WW II paperbacks, has sat in a corner for 8 years or so. I picked it up last Saturday and read it in a day. A real page turner with dense factual content and hair-raising stories. In the tradition of the best non-fiction, the truth here is stranger and more compelling than fiction. Hats off to the submariners -- I hope they're still out there, quietly ruining bad guys' days.
Rating: - Untold story- told.
Having served on a U.S. submarine I found this to be a fasinating story that the American people should hear. America and Russia were so close to a not so cold of a war many times during the Cold War.
Rating: - Suspenseful and interesting
This book was both suspenseful and interesting account of spying under the waves. While I find most Submarine books be overly simplified in the operation of the sub it's self the same is true here. While more detail is given by the author in our activities of taping the underwater telephone and data cables of the Soviets, more detailed technical information would have been helpful to me. Still an engaging book, which through it's pages let me to yet more books, it was well worth the read. While it ... Read More
Rating: - Super popular for a reason
By no means a work of fine literature, this is still one of the best times I have had reading a book. Since I read it mostly in airplanes and airports, the following formed part of my experience - never in my life have so many people walked up to me and told me how much they loved a book I was reading.
Great stuff, very interesting. Reading this makes me think my own job is barely a step above washing dishes in the hierarchy of manly activities. Hats off, boys!
If you have ... Read More
Rating: - Kinda makes you sad that the Cold War ever ended
Amazing stories of the US Navy's submarine service during the Cold War. These are the stories of the people who did the cool ops that you have always hoped we were doing. These submariners push the limits of bravery, patriotism, and courage often coming close to foolhardy. The author has gone so far as to locate some of the Soviet submariners and has included their comments. The stories begin after World War II and end only with the close of the Cold War.
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