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Hide and Seek: The Untold Story of Cold War Naval Espionage

Autor Peter A. Huchthausen, Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 ian 2009
Through dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWII to the breakup the Soviet Union in 1991, from both sides, East and West. Unlike other accounts, which focus on submarine confrontations and accidents, the authors cover all types of naval intelligence, human collection (racing with the Soviets to capture Nazi subs, successful and losing spies and defectors), signal intelligence (surface, air, satellite and navy commando teams in balaclavas launched by speed boats from subs), acoustic (passive underwater arrays and tapping phone lines), and the aerial and space reconnaissance. The authors give details of operations in all these areas, some of which were witnessed first hand. "A new light is shed on the spy ships incidents of the 1960s and on submarine intrusions in Swedish waters. Excerpts of the Soviet Navy instructions on UFOs and accounts of Soviet naval encounters with unexplained objects are also published for the first time outside of Russia; and much more."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780471785309
ISBN-10: 047178530X
Pagini: 414
Dimensiuni: 160 x 239 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Public țintă

Fans of Blind Man′s Bluff, Naval history and submarine buffs; readers interested in espionage, intelligence, cold war; public and college libraries; naval historical sites.

Descriere

"Much previously unpublished information, sensational revelations, and reassessments that will undoubtedly be of the greatest interest to both specialists in naval warfare and intelligence and to the general public eager to understand the lessons of current history." —Admiral Pierre Lacoste, chief of French foreign secret service (DGSE), 1982–1985 True stories fromthe war in the shadows. Were Soviet spies better at their jobs than their Western counterparts? What were Stalin′s intentions and naval strategy? Who was trying to compromise who in the Profumo affair? Did Ronald Reagan go too far in his psychologicalwarfare naval campaign against the Soviet Union? What were the Soviets or others searching for with their submarine incursions into Swedish waters?What are maritime UFOs, and what did the U.S. and Soviet navies discoverabout them? This is just a small sampling of the many intriguing and disturbing questions answered in Hide and Seek. This comprehensive history of Cold War naval intelligence operations is packed with previously unknown facts, stunning revelations, and riveting accounts of the amazing exploits of cold warriors on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

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"Much previously unpublished information, sensational revelations, and reassessments that will undoubtedly be of the greatest interest to both specialists in naval warfare and intelligence and to the general public eager to understand the lessons of current history."
--Admiral Pierre Lacoste, chief of French foreign secret service (DGSE), 1982-1985

True stories fromthe war in the shadows.

Were Soviet spies better at their jobs than their Western counterparts? What were Stalin's intentions and naval strategy? Who was trying to compromise who in the Profumo affair? Did Ronald Reagan go too far in his psychologicalwarfare naval campaign against the Soviet Union? What were the Soviets or others searching for with their submarine incursions into Swedish waters?What are maritime UFOs, and what did the U.S. and Soviet navies discoverabout them?

This is just a small sampling of the many intriguing and disturbing questions answered in Hide and Seek. This comprehensive history of Cold War naval intelligence operations is packed with previously unknown facts, stunning revelations, and riveting accounts of the amazing exploits of cold warriors on both sides of the Iron Curtain.


Cuprins

Acknowledgments. Note to the Reader. Introduction. Chapter One: Victor’s Plunder,1941–1945. Chapter Two: Penetrations, 1945–1952. Chapter Three: Allies to Antagonists, 1945–1952. Chapter Four: Korean War, 1950–1953. Chapter Five: Requiem for a Battleship, 1955. Chapter Six: Khrushchev and Crabbe, 1953–1960. Chapter Seven: Anatomy of Treason, 1958–1964. Chapter Eight: Cuba, 1962. Chapter Nine: Transition to War: Vietnam, 1961–1975. Chapter Ten: A Submarine is Lost and Found, 1968–1974, 1989. Chapter Eleven: Ocean Surveillance, 1962–1980s. Chapter Twelve: A Naval Intelligence Revolution, 1970s. Chapter Thirteen : War Scare and PSYOPS, 1981–1987. Chapter Fourteen: Swedish Waters, 1980–1990s. Chapter Fifteen: Spies in Uniform, 1980s. Chapter Sixteen: Soviet, U. S., ... or Others? 1940–1980s. Chapter Seventeen: The Legacy of the Soviet Navy, 1989 and After. Notes. Photos credits. Index.

Notă biografică

Captain Peter A. Huchthausen, U.S. Navy (Retired), had a distinguished careerserving both at sea and on land as a Soviet naval analyst and a naval attaché in Yugoslavia, Romania, and the Soviet Union. He was the author of three books on the Soviet navy. His works include the bestselling Hostile Waters, October Fury, and Shadow Voyage. Alexandre Sheldon–Duplaix serves as a researcher in the French Joint HistoricalServices (Service historique de la Défense) inVincennes, France, and as a lecturer on thehistory of the Russian navy at the Defense Staff College in Paris. He worked as a naval analyst for twelve years and has written or cowritten three books published in France on ships, strategy,and politics.