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Originally Posted by theking
I seriously doubt it is true as Soviet subs as well as Chinese subs were tracked from the time of leaving port...and the Soviets as well as the Chinese knew this.
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They were tracked to an extent. Keep in mind this was the 1960's and the SOSUS wasn't fully in place. Also, a major point of the book was the sudden and unexpected departure of the Russian sub... which happened to be at the same exact time a Chinese Golf I was in the same area.
Also according to this book, the only reason any of this came to the attention of the US was because a missile launch detection satellite captured the event on film. The US Military quickly determined it wasn't a missile launch, but rather an explousion on the surface (and thus of no interest to the US until six months later when questions started coming up).
Don't quote me on any of this, I'm going by memory here. I consider myself lucky when I remember my wife's name in the morning.
Pretty damn scary if any of it is close to being true.