Hide and Seek

Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, Peter A. Huchthausen

Description

Through dramatic incidents tells for the first time the full story of the development of Cold War naval intelligence from the end of WWII to the breakup the Soviet Union in 1991, from both sides, East and West. Unlike other accounts, which focus on submarine confrontations and accidents, the authors cover all types of naval intelligence, human collection (racing with the Soviets to capture Nazi subs, successful and losing spies and defectors), signal intelligence (surface, air, satellite and navy commando teams in balaclavas launched by speed boats from subs), acoustic (passive underwater arrays and tapping phone lines), and the aerial and space reconnaissance. The authors give details of operations in all these areas, some of which were witnessed first hand.

"A new light is shed on the spy ships incidents of the 1960s and on submarine intrusions in Swedish waters. Excerpts of the Soviet Navy instructions on UFOs and accounts of Soviet naval encounters with unexplained objects are also published for the first time outside of Russia; and much more."

Sujets

• Military Science
• HISTORY
• Sciences et techniques
• Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Soviet Navy
• Cold War
• Military
• World War II
• Unidentified flying object
• Technology
• Russia
• Engineering
• Naval
• Guerre froide
• Seconde Guerre mondiale
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781620459713
• Langue: English

Extrait

HIDE AND SEEK
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HIDE AND SEEK
The Untold Story of Cold War Naval Espionage
Peter A. Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix
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Huchthausen, Peter A., date.
Hide and seek : the untold story of Cold War naval espionage / Peter A. Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-471-78530-9 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Military intelligence-History-20th century. 2. United States. Navy-History- 20th century. 3. Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoi Flot-History. 4. Naval history, Modern- 20th century. 5. Cold War. I. Sheldon-Duplaix, Alexandre. II. Title. VB230.H84 2008 359.3 432097309045-dc22
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To the many nameless combatants who fought in the shadows to keep the world free
PETER HUCHTHAUSEN SEPTEMBER 25, 1939-JULY 11, 2008
Captain Peter Huchthausen, USN (retired), died in Normandy, France, on July 11, 2008. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1962. Initially, he served as a line officer on the destroyer US S Blandy during the Cuban missile crisis, enforcing the naval blockade and verifying the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. Peter then served two tours of duty in Vietnam, first as a skipper of a patrol boat with the USN Riverine forces in the Mekong Delta. He returned to Vietnam on the destroyer US S O deck, which provided naval gunfire support to army and marine forces operations along the Vietnam coast. Transferring to Naval Intelligence, he served on the NATO Naval Staff in London, England. He then returned to sea duty for a three-year tour as the US S Enterprise Battle Group Intelligence Officer. Selected for attach duty, he was posted as the naval attach to Yugoslavia and Romania and later to the Soviet Union. Following retirement in 1990, Peter authored seven books. Two of them were made into movies: the HBO movie Hostile Waters and K19: The Widowmaker. Peter began visiting Normandy in 1994 and was so taken by what the American airborne forces accomplished in Operation Neptune in June 1944 that in 2005 he decided to permanently retire near Sainte-M re-Eglise.
Captain Huchthausen was awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal; the Navy Combat Medal with Combat V ; two Joint Meritorious Service medals; the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star; two Presidential Unit Citations; the Vietnam Service Medal with five stars; the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal; the Vietnamese Civic Action Medal; the Vietnamese Expeditionary Medal; the National Defense Medal; the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon; the Vietnamese Campaign Medal; and the USN/USMC Hostile Action Ribbon.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader

Introduction
1 Victor s Plunder, 1941-1945
2 Penetrations, 1945-1952
3 Allies to Antagonists, 1945-1952
4 The Korean War, 1950-1953
5 Requiem for a Battleship, 1955
6 Khrushchev and Crabb, 1953-1960
7 Anatomy of Treason, 1958-1964
8 Cuba, 1962
9 Transition to War: Vietnam, 1961-1975
10 A Submarine Is Lost and Found, 1968-1974, 1989
11 Ocean Surveillance, 1962-1980s
12 A Naval Intelligence Revolution, 1970s
13 War Scare and PSYOPS, 1981-1987
14 Swedish Waters, 1980-1990s
15 Spies in Uniform, 1980s
16 Soviet, U.S., or Others? 1940s-1980s
17 The Legacy of the Soviet Navy, 1989 and After
Notes
Photo credits
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors express their sincere gratitude for the invaluable assistance rendered by Captain Uwe Mahrenholtz, Federal German Navy retired; Lieutenant Commander Desmond Robinson, Royal Navy retired; and Allan Shore, former Defense Intelligence Staff in Whitehall; and Ambassador Yoya Kawamura, Japan.
From Russia we appreciate the candid information from Fleet Admiral Vladimir N. Chernavin and Vice Admirals Valentin Selivanov and Yuri Kviatovskiy. We also thank Rear Admirals I. Ivanov and Lev D. Chernavin; Captains Lev Vtorygin, Sergei Aprelev, Nikolai Mum, Igor Kurdin, Yevgeniy Litvanov, Oleg Malov, and Valentin Shigin; Colonel Boris Grigoriev; and Colonel (Cosmic forces) Valeriy Pradishev (retired).
From Sweden we thank Rear Admiral Emil Svensson, Captain Erland Sonnerstedt, Captain Lars Wedin, producer Lars Borgn s, and Professor Ola Tunander.
From the Naval Historical Center in the Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., we thank Dr. Edward Marolda, Kathy Lloyd, and Glen Helms.
From the Joint French Defense Historical Service (Service historique de la D fense), we thank Vice Admiral Louis de Contenson, Captain Serge Th baut, Philippe Vial, Jean Martinant de Pr neuf, and Cadet Mathieu Le Hunsec. From the former French Naval historical service (Service historique de la Marine), we thank Rear Admirals Alain Bellot, and Jean Kessler, retired.
Our gratitude also goes to Arthur D. Baker; Chris Carlson; Norman Friedman; Larrie Ferreiro; Colonel Werner Globke, federal German air force retired; Professor John Hattendorff, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; Captain Claude Huan, French navy retired; Ambassador Yoya Kawamura, Japan; Patrice Loriot; Captain Uwe Mahrenholtz, federal German navy retired; Rear Admiral Jean-Marie Mathey, French navy retired; Norman Polmar; Bernard Prezelin; Lieutenant Commander Desmond Robinson, Royal Navy retired; Peter Swartz, USN (retired); and Allan Shore, former Defense Intelligence staff in Whitehall.
Special thanks are due to translator Inna Smirnova and our frequent Washington, D.C., hostess, Rona Feit.
NOTE TO THE READER
The following pages relate events explaining the critical role of naval intelligence from the end of World War II in 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Sensitive archives are usually kept secret until the date of their destruction, while more mundane intelligence papers are generally made available to the public after fifty or sixty years. Declassification initiatives sometimes shorten this delay, most notably in the United States. Personal recollections are often distorted by egotism, political or professional passions, close friendships, hatred, and vanishing memories. Bearing in mind these limitations, the authors present candid accounts depicting key events in the long behind-the-scenes Cold War naval intelligence scramble.
Most of the material from 1945 through 1962 was obtained from Western archives and recent Russian studies, books, and articles little known in the West at the time of this writing. For the period after 1962, the authors of this book have augmented these sources with interviews and their own personal experiences and firsthand knowledge.
Peter Huchthausen served at sea and ashore in antisubmarine warfare; was a senior U.S. naval attach in Belgrade, Bucharest, and Moscow; and between assignments was part of the Defense Intelligence Agency attach operations and human intelligence organization in Washington, D.C.
Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix works in the French Joint Historical Service in Vincennes, France, and is a researcher and a lecturer on the history of the Soviet navy at the Defense Staff College in Paris. He was a naval analyst under contract with the French navy from 1987 to 1999.
Retired Soviet navy captain first rank Lev Vtorygin provided much of the material from the Soviet side to the authors over a period of fifteen years. Vtorygin had a successful twenty-five