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Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

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"boiling" point (Ayer 46). Weapons were used, but they were not always visible to the naked eye. The submarine, which had been around since World War I, had  suddenly become invaluable in terms of surveillance and covert military operations. For the American and Soviet governments, the sub was a way for them to monitor each others actions  insidiously, without alerting the rest of the world to their activities. The U.S. and Soviet naval adventures and misadventures have received surprisingly little attention by the print media, largely  because most of the information still remains heavily classified. However, two extremely dedicated investigative journalists, Sherry Sontag, a political correspondent for the National Law Journal, and Christopher Drew, a  New York Times reporter, tackled the Herculean task of interviewing Navy officers who often would only speak anonymously, and gaining access to several classified government documents under the Freedom of  Information Act (FOIA) (Weinberg 11). The authors explained the nature of their overwhelming undertaking this way: "Confidentiality was paramount. Everybody who spoke was violating a secrecy oath,  and feared prosecution and ostracism from their peers... Some details took a dozen interviews or more to uncover and confirm... Sometimes memories had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached"  (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking research, numerous interviews and detailed documentation is the extraordinary Blind Mans Bluff: The Untold Story of  American Submarine Espionage, an often suspenseful and tightly-woven collection of tales that "addressed many U.S. Navy operations that had never before appeared in the open press" (Polmar 66). The  book, subdivided into twelve chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue, is jam-packed with not only statistical data that is supported by several key players, but is filled with vividly descriptive