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
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Background Information
The Cold War was the worldwide conflict between the western democracies and Communist states, particularly the USSR. Espionage, the gaining knowledge about foreign powers that they would prefer not be known, has been a central component of American policy from the Revolution to the present. The hydrogen bomb, utilizing the energy of atomic fusion rather than fission, is vastly more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the second World War. The Central Intelligence Agency succeeded the Office of Strategic Services after World War II as the country's espionage service. Howard Hughes was born into wealth which he increased greatly through investments in aviation and entertainment, before buying much of Las Vegas and dying there as a recluse.