Veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag & award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew finally reveal the exciting epic story of adventure ingenuity courage & disaster beneath the sea Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the American Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables Sontag & Drew unveil new evidence that the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion a submarine that disappeared all hands lost thirty years ago They disclose for the first time details of the bitter war between the CIA & the Navy & how it threatened to sabotage one of America's most important undersea missions They tell the complete story of the audacious attempt to steal a Soviet submarine with the help of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes & how it was doomed from the start & Sontag & Drew reveal how the Navy used the comforting notion of deep-sea rescue vehicles to hide operations that were more James Bond than Jacques Cousteau Stretching from the years immediately after World War II to the present-day spy operations of the Clinton Administration Blind Man's Bluff reads like a spy thriller but with one important difference
- everything in it is true