Blind Mans Bluff: The Untold True Story of American Submarine - Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew and Annette L. Drew

Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew and Annette L. Drew

Category: History

Narrator: Tony Roberts

Tags: History, Military, Adults

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Mans 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. It unveils how the Navys own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, thirty years ago. 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. 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., Blind Mans Bluff contains an unforgettable array of characters, including the cowboy sub commander who brazenly outraced torpedoes and couldnt resist sneaking up to within feet of unaware enemy subs. It takes us inside clandestine Wash