Spy Ships
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Spy Ships

One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Spy Ships

One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines

About this book

Almost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the U.S. Navy and other government agencies and many other navies have used increasingly specialized ships and submarines to ferret out the secrets of other nations. The United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have been the leaders in those efforts, especially during the forty-five years of the Cold War. But, as Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers reveal, so has China, which has become a major maritime power in the twenty-first century, with special interests in the South China Sea and with increasing hostility toward the United States.

Through extensive, meticulous research and through the lens of such notorious spy ship events as the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, the North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s success in clandestinely salvaging part of a Soviet submarine with the Hughes Glomar Explorer, Spy Ships is a fascinating and valuable resource for understanding maritime intelligence collection and what we have learned from it.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Perspective
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. U.S. Navy Ship and Submarine Designations
  11. 1. The Dawn of Spy Ships
  12. 2. Western Spy Submarines
  13. 3. The Cold War: The Red Side
  14. 4. The Cold War: Red Submarines
  15. 5. American Spy Ships: Part 1
  16. 6. The Attack on the uss Liberty
  17. 7. American Spy Ships: Part 2
  18. 8. The Seizure of the uss Pueblo
  19. 9. Unusual Spy Ships
  20. 10. Some Bottom Lines
  21. Appendix A. Soviet/Russian Spy Ships
  22. Appendix B. U.S. Spy Ships
  23. Appendix C. Other Spy Ships
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. General Index
  27. Ship and Submarine Index
  28. About the Authors