Spy Sub
Subtitle: A Top Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific
Publisher: Naval Inst Pr
Published: May 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 14
ISBN-13: 9781557501783
Subjects: Espionage & secret services; Naval forces & warfare; Submarine disasters; Military - Naval; Intelligence Operations; Submarines; History; History - Military / War; Soviet Union; History: World; Pacific Ocean; Military - Nuclear Warfare; Military - General; Military Science; Submarine forces; United States; Intelligence service; Navy
First sentence: In Moscow on the cold morning of 29 March 1966, the Twenty-Third Congress of the Soviet Communist Party convened at the Kremlin for the first time since the death of Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Description: This is the true story of an American nuclear submarine's desperate search for a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine lost in the depths of the north Pacific. Told by a sailor on board the U.S. spy sub, it reads like a techno-thriller, but the events recorded here actually happened.

To this day - some twenty-eight years later - the U.S. Navy has never publicly admitted the operation took place. The mission remains so sensitive that it is still classified "compartmentalized top secret." With slight technical modifications and name changes, however, Roger Dunham's story was cleared for publication by the Department of Defense. It offers the first eyewitness account of what the Pentagon calls one of the most successful military operations of the Cold War.

Dunham brings readers into his submarine as the crew struggles to accomplish their mission in spite of flooding, emergency shutdowns of the nuclear reactor, depletion of uranium fuel, the loss overboard of a chief petty officer, and the mental breakdown of a crewman vital to the engine room. The ultimate success of this dangerous operation earned the crew the Presidential Unit Citation, presented in a top secret ceremony.