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Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion
Perseus Books Group
April 2007
On Sale: April 20, 2007
480 pages
ISBN: 0465051855
EAN: 9780465051854
Hardcover
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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
decades long 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 describes
it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story
of the disaster has eluded journalists, historians, and
the family members of the lost crew. But a small handful
of Navy and government officials knew the truth from the
very beginning: The sinking of the U.S.S. Scorpion
and its crew of 99 men on May 22, 1968, was an act of war.
In this major work of historical reporting, Ed Offley
reveals that the sinking of the U.S.S. Scorpion has
never been a mystery, but rather a secret buried by the
U.S. government in a frantic attempt to keep the Cold War
from turning into a hot war. The Soviets had torpedoed the
Scorpion in reprisal for the destruction of the Soviet
missile sub K-129, which the Americans had sunk in
the Pacific just ten weeks earlier. But why does the U.S.
Navy continue to hide the real story of what happened on
that fateful day in 1968? In Scorpion Down,
military reporter Ed Offley tells the true story of the
U.S.S. Scorpion for the first time and dramatically
recounts a little-known episode that nearly brought about
World War III. And he conclusively demonstrates that the
Navy's official account of the Scorpion incident--from the
frantic open-ocean hunt for the wreckage to a court of
inquiry's final conclusions--is nothing more than a
carefully constructed series of lies.
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