Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (ISBN 0-06-103004-X), published in 1998 by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew, is a non-fiction

Non-fiction

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 book about U.S. Navy

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 submarine

Submarine

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 operations during the Cold War

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. Several operations are described in the book, such as the use of to tap Soviet

Soviet Union

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 undersea communications cables and to do the same in Operation Ivy Bells

Operation Ivy Bells

Operation Ivy Bells was a joint United States Navy, CIA and National Security Agency mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War.-History:...

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The book also contains an extensive list of submarine collisions and U.S. submarine awards.