And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I've read that a few times !! Great book Favorite story is when we put a "tap" on an undersea Soviet cable, the CIA lawyers had to write a brief as to why that would be legal for us to do.............
(I spoke to my uncle before he passed away about this book and he very slyly informed me that the game of chance that decided which Crypto logical Technician would go on the mission to tap the undersea cable was rigged. He stated that he wasn't about to spend a year sitting on the bottom of the ocean.)
I see some Anonymous contributors giving the correct response to the discussion topic: I can neither confirm nor deny that I know anything about what’s in this book. Well done. The men who were saturation divers on these missions have lived a much more painful life afterwards than was originally conceived.
This is a good one!
ReplyDeleteThis is factual, lived through some of this personally. Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, it is very good. The part where they used game theory to locate the lost submarine is fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI read it years ago. Excellent book.
ReplyDeleteThis is why we are called the Silent Service.
ReplyDeleteWe weren't there and didn't do that thing that didn't happen. And if we were there and did something you'd never believe it.
MM1(SS)
"you heard that torpedo hit the hull and I was never here........."
DeleteOutstanding read!
ReplyDeleteA good read for sure.
ReplyDeleteI met her at the new whinny and moo in San Diego when she was there for a book signing. It was a very interesting read.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting read!! Does anyone know of a newer book with more recent stories? IIRC this one ended with info ~1974.
ReplyDeleteI've read that a few times !!
ReplyDeleteGreat book
Favorite story is when we put a "tap" on an undersea Soviet cable, the CIA lawyers had to write a brief as to why that would be legal for us to do.............
I can neither confirm nor deny the factuality of everything written in that book...
ReplyDeleteA great book that few have heard about.
ReplyDelete(I spoke to my uncle before he passed away about this book and he very slyly informed me that the game of chance that decided which Crypto logical Technician would go on the mission to tap the undersea cable was rigged. He stated that he wasn't about to spend a year sitting on the bottom of the ocean.)
Scurvy
I can tell you for a fact that on both of the North Atlantic Hydrographic Surveys did I ever look out the window and see a Soviet ship.
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I see some Anonymous contributors giving the correct response to the discussion topic: I can neither confirm nor deny that I know anything about what’s in this book. Well done. The men who were saturation divers on these missions have lived a much more painful life afterwards than was originally conceived.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless US Navy Saturation Divers, Men of steel, courage and incredible nerves.
ReplyDeleteReading it right now, coincidentally. My copy came from Goodwill ($3.99).
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