Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4892-1024977196-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11434 invoked by uid 510); 25 Jun 2002 03:58:12 -0000 Received: from n30.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.87) by all.net with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 03:58:12 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4892-1024977196-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.66.97] by n30.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 25 Jun 2002 03:53:16 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 25 Jun 2002 03:53:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 61014 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2002 03:53:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jun 2002 03:53:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jun 2002 03:53:16 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g5P3sK720344 for iwar@onelist.com; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:54:20 -0700 Message-Id: <200206250354.g5P3sK720344@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Book.Recounts.the.Real.Hunt.for.Red.October] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=RISK_FREE,FREE_MONEY,DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: *** Monday, Jun. 24, 2002. Page 5 Book Recounts the Real Hunt for Red October By Vladimir Isachenko The Associated Press Hunted down by the U.S. Navy off Cuba during the October, 1962 missile crisis, a furious Soviet submarine commander ordered a nuclear-tipped torpedo armed for action but then controlled his ire and brought the sub to the surface where U.S. ships were waiting for it. The previously unknown incident that might have pushed the two superpowers closer to an all-out nuclear war was disclosed in a book released this week. The book, written by Russian journalist Alexander Mozgovoi, told the story of four Soviet submarines engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with the U.S. Navy off Cuba at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is based on interviews with former submariners. The four diesel submarines of the Foxtrot type armed with both conventional and nuclear-tipped torpedoes sailed from the Kola Peninsula. They managed to break through U.S. and NATO cordons unnoticed, but were quickly spotted by the U.S. Navy as they approached Cuba. The submarines needed to come to the surface often to charge their batteries, and that made them easy prey for the extensive U.S. anti-submarine cordons around the Communist island. Captain Valentin Savitsky's B-59 submarine was quickly spotted by U.S. Navy patrol aircraft when it appeared on the surface. U.S. destroyers rushed to block it and began dropping stun grenades to force it to resurface, said Vadim Orlov, who was in charge of the submarine's radio intelligence during the crisis. "The Americans encircled us and began dropping grenades that were exploding right next to us," Orlov was quoted as saying in the book. "It felt like sitting in a metal barrel with someone hitting it with a sledgehammer. The crew was in shock." The bombardment went on for several hours, and several sailors lost conscience as oxygen ran low and temperatures inside the submarine soared to above 50 degrees Celsius. After an especially strong explosion shook the submarine, "Savitsky got furious and ordered an officer in charge of a nuclear-tipped torpedo to arm the weapon," Orlov said. "There may be a war raging up there and we are trapped here turning somersaults!" Savitsky cried, according to Orlov. The submarines' commanders had strict orders not to use their weapons without an order from Moscow, but the close surveillance by the U.S. Navy made it hard for them to resurface for scheduled communications sessions. Savitsky eventually managed to control his anger and ordered the submarine to come to the surface. It was dark and the area was brightly lit by searchlights from U.S. ships and a U.S. helicopter buzzing overhead. "We felt like a wolf hunted down," Orlov remembered. "It was a beautiful but frightful scene." The book has not been translated into English. Its Russian title, "Kubinskaya Samba Kvarteta Fokstrotov," translates to "Cuban Samba of the Foxtrot Quartet." <a href="http://www.themoscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/06/24/016.html">http://www.themoscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/06/24/016.html> <http://www.themoscowtimes.ru/stories/2002/06/24/016.html ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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