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Blind Man''s "Bluff meets The Hunt for Red October" in the
shocking untold story of an American submarine torpedoed at the
height of the Cold War - and the forty year cover-up that
followed.One Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved
sea mysteries of our era." To this day, the U.S. Navy officially
calls it an inexplicable accident. But a small handful of Navy
leaders, submariners and intelligence officials from that era have
long known otherwise: that the loss of the USS Scorpion SSN 589
and its crew of 99 men on May 22, 1968, was an act of war. The
Scorpion was sunk by a Soviet sub in an act of reprisal for the
sinking of the Soviet missile sub K-129, which had gone down in the
Pacific just ten weeks before.The Scorpion sinking is not a
mystery; it is a Cold War secret that has been buried by both the
U.S. and Soviet governments since 1968. At the time, both sides
quickly realized that the back-to-back submarine sinkings - if
publicly known - could have turned the Cold War into a hot war
overnight.For nearly 40 years, the Navy and U.S. intelligence
communities have continued to cover up the facts of the Scorpion
sinking, citing the need to protect top secret military
classification. The full account of its loss has continued to elude
and frustrate researchers, journalists and family members of the
lost crew - until now.After a quarter century of research, this
book is the first to tell the story of what actually happened to
the ninety-nine members of the U.S. Navy''s elite Submarine Service
who disappeared in the service of their country to a watery grave
on the ocean floor 11,100 feet down. It reveals that the Navy''s
official Scorpion story - from the sub''s failure to make port to a
frantic open-ocean hunt, to a scientific search that ultimately
"found" the wreckage, to a Court of Inquiry''s carefully-crafted
conclusions - was all a lie.
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Ed Offley has been a military reporting specialist for
newspapers and online publications since 1981, including the
Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Virginia, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Stripes.com, and DefenseWatch magazine. He is currently Military
Reporter for the News Herald in Panama City, Florida. A graduate of
the University of Virginia, Offley served in the U.S. Navy in
Vietnam. He lives in Florida.
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