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BLIND MANS BLUFF: THE UNTOLD STORY OF COLD WAR SUBMARINE ESPIONAGE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Sherry Sontag,Christopher Drew | 384 pages | 03 Aug 2000 | Cornerstone | 9780099409984 | English | London, United Kingdom Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag The taps, made within Soviet territorial waters, were clearly illegal under any international laws, and the subs that installed them were wired to self- destruct if they were caught. Another example is the attempt to retrieve critical material from a Soviet Golf-class sub sunk in the Pacific. The Central Intelligence Agency, in collaboration with Howard Hughes, built the huge research vessel, Glomar Explorer, to bring up the entire submarine—only to see it break apart as they tried to raise it. The use of submarines in Intelligence work has resulted in tragedy as well as controversy. Flowing text, Google-generated PDF. Best for. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. Content protection. Read aloud. Learn more. Flag as inappropriate. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview Discover the secret history of America's submarine warfare in this fast-paced and deeply researched chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War that reads like a spy thriller. Blind Man's Bluff is an exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the sea. This New York Times bestseller reveals previously unknown dramas, such as: The mission to send submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. How the Navy's own negligence may have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion , a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, in The bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. The audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start. Christopher Drew is a special projects editor at the New York Times and has won numerous awards for his investigative reporting. Show More. Related Searches. A Place at the Table: The Crisis of. Inspired by the acclaimed documentary A Place at the Table, this companion book offers powerful View Product. American Rebels. American Rebels is an anthology of specially commissioned essays by leading American writers that attempt Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage - Wikipedia This New York Times bestseller reveals previously unknown dramas, such as: The mission to send submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. How the Navy's own negligence may have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, in The bitter war between the CIA and the Navy and how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions. The audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and how it was doomed from the start. A magnificent achievement in investigative reporting, Blind Man's Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference -- everything in it is true. Christopher Drew is a special projects editor at the New York Times and has won numerous awards for his investigative reporting. Reviews Review Policy. Published on. Flowing text, Google-generated PDF. Best for. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. The authors could only relate those events that participants chose to disclose and describe. Thus, the book is very episodic as opposed to being a neat history of the subject. That being said, the stories are fascinating and moving. Thank a submariner the next time you run into one. These men risked and still risk a cold and silent demise in pursuit of their missions—missions that contributed greatly to ensuring that the Soviets would not be tempted to go nuclear during the cold war due to our constant ability to keep ahead of their technology, strategy and tactics and general war fighting ability. The stories are thrill rides of missions in Soviet waters, collisions between U. The stories of the men and machines themselves are the focus and the authors write them well. The only thing that nagged me through the book was the realization that so many of our naval personnel were willing to talk about events that they swore never to reveal. The authors do not spend much time on this issue. My hope is that the Navy has given the quiet ok to these veterans as a way of acknowledging their historic service. The alternative is that a large number of sworn men broke their commitment and may be making it more difficult for current submariners to perform their necessary missions. The exploits of these sailors is exciting, this book reads like a novel. To say these sailors had guts would be an understatement. There are maps, diagrams of subs, photos that help tell these fascinating tales of underwater bravery. The authors tell of the successes, the failures, the politics, the morality of our spying objectively and factually. We certainly pushed the envelope of our spying and crossed the line on several occasions, but we won. And he who wins gets to write the history. The Soviets spied on us as well, we just out did them and took more risks. There is a section on the Soviet perspective of the submarine operations which is very interesting as well. Blind Man’s Bluff Cold War Submarines | They tell 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. The authors take us inside clandestine Washington meetings where top submarine captains briefed U. And they take us under the waves into the cramped quarters of American and Soviet submarines, where days of boredom were broken by moments of sheer terror as subs hunted each other in the dark silence of the deep sea, the shallow coasts, and even underneath the Artic ice. Hardback editions like this one are out-of-print. The authors could only relate those events that participants chose to disclose and describe. Thus, the book is very episodic as opposed to being a neat history of the subject. That being said, the stories are fascinating and moving. Thank a submariner the next time you run into one. These men risked and still risk a cold and silent demise in pursuit of their missions—missions that contributed greatly to ensuring that the Soviets would not be tempted to go nuclear during the cold war due to our constant ability to keep ahead of their technology, strategy and tactics and general war fighting ability. The stories are thrill rides of missions in Soviet waters, collisions between U. The stories of the men and machines themselves are the focus and the authors write them well. The only thing that nagged me through the book was the realization that so many of our naval personnel were willing to talk about events that they swore never to reveal. The authors do not spend much time on this issue. My hope is that the Navy has given the quiet ok to these veterans as a way of acknowledging their historic service. The alternative is that a large number of sworn men broke their commitment and may be making it more difficult for current submariners to perform their necessary missions. The exploits of these sailors is exciting, this book reads like a novel. To say these sailors had guts would be an understatement. There are maps, diagrams of subs, photos that help tell these fascinating tales of underwater bravery. The authors tell of the successes, the failures, the politics, the morality of our spying objectively and factually. A magnificent achievement in investigative reporting, Blind Man's Bluff reads like a spy thriller, but with one important difference -- everything in it is true. Christopher Drew is a special projects editor at the New York Times and has won numerous awards for his investigative reporting. Reviews Review Policy. Published on. Flowing text, Google-generated PDF. Best for. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. Content protection. Read aloud. Learn more. Flag as inappropriate. Flowing text, Google-generated PDF. Best for. Web, Tablet, Phone, eReader. Content protection. Read aloud. Learn more. Flag as inappropriate. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Original Title. Theodore And Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize In Naval History Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Blind Man's Bluff , please sign up. How accurate are the boat designator numbers? Arthur Schaffer To the best of my Knowledge , they are close, for security reasons sometimes you just cannot be truthful. They are easy to track the hull numbers.. M …more To the best of my Knowledge , they are close, for security reasons sometimes you just cannot be truthful. Most Submarines Boats now even have web pages See 1 question about Blind Man's Bluff…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 30, Fred Shaw rated it it was amazing. Excellent book if you want to know more about what subs do. I found it fascinating. View all 8 comments. May 29, Kevin Shepherd rated it really liked it Shelves: own , read-long-ago , reviewed , history , non-fiction. Declassification and the Freedom of Information Act cleared the way for public disclosure of these covert, top secret ops. I'm obviously biased, but I found this much more interesting than any fictional scenarios dreamed up in the minds of Tom Clancy or Patrick Robinson.