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

2016

Synopsis

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 1968.

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.

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