Edward Offley
1) Scorpion down: Sunk by the Soviets, buried by the Pentagon : the untold story of the USS Scorpion
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"The loss of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) on Memorial Day, May 27, 1968, has been commemorated by an American admiral as "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era." To this day, the U.S. Navy officially describes it as an inexplicable accident. After the sub failed to return to port at the Norfolk Naval Station following a routine three-month Mediterranean deployment, a frantic search ensued (the largest U.S. naval operation...
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[2007]
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The loss of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion on Memorial Day 1968has been called one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era, but an investigative journalist shows that the Navy knew from the beginning that the ship had been sunk by the Soviets and told a carefully-constructed series of lies to mislead the world and possibly avert WWIII.