Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon

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One Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era.” The U.S. Navy officially describes it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story of the disaster eluded journalists, historians, and the family members of the lost crew. But a small handful of Navy and government officials knew the truth: The sinking of the U.S.S. Scorpion on May 22, 1968, was an act of war. In Scorpion Down, military reporter Ed Offley reveals that the true cause of the Scorpion’s sinking was buried by the U.S. government in an attempt to keep the Cold War from turning hot. For five months, the families of the Scorpion crew waited while the Navy searched feverishly for the missing submarine. For the first time, Offley reveals that entire search was cover-up, devised to conceal that fact that the Scorpion had been torpedoed by the Soviets. In this gripping and controversial book, Offley takes the reader inside the shadowy world of the Cold War military, where rival superpowers fought secret battles far below the surface of the sea.

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On May 22, 1968 the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion and its crew of 99 men went down in the Atlantic off the Azores. At the time Ed Offley was a 21-year-old college student. In 1983, after Offley had become a journalist, he became interested in the loss of what was at the time the world's fastest attack boat. He interviewed several dozen former Navy personnel, family members of the crew, and scientists, and came to a radically different conclusion from the official military line that the Scorpion was destroyed by a mechanical failure of some kind. After two years of research he published an article suggesting that the sub had been sunk by an accidental torpedo mishap. The full truth could not be found until after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1991. Offley's exhaustive research over decades ties together the capture of the USS Pueblo by the North Koreans, the KGB, secret underwater listening devices, convicted spy John Anthony Walker, the CIA and the recovery ship Glomar Explorer, a confrontational Soviet navy, the lost Soviet sub K-129, and a US Navy cover-up. The book reads like a first-class mystery, gripping and suspenseful. Offley gives his critics their due, citing arguments against his conclusions. Reviewer: Janet Julian

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780465051861
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 3/28/2008
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 484,693
Product dimensions: 5.31 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Meet the Author

Ed Offley

Ed Offley has been a military reporting specialist for newspapers and online publications since 1981, including the Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Virginia, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Stripes.com, and DefenseWatch magazine. He is currently Military Reporter for the News Herald in Panama City, Florida. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Offley served in the U.S. Navy in Vietnam. He lives in Panama City Beach, Florida.

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Anonymous

Posted September 4, 2007

Doesn't Deliver

Mr. Offley labored hard and long on this book. He makes sure you will appreciate every minute of how long and hard he worked on this book. Unfortunately, the conclusion he WANTS the reader to come away with is not supported by any of the 'facts' spread around the book. This endeavor is a prime example of advocacy journalism run amok. Having said that, one must understand that the theory advanced in this book is as unequally unproven as any of the other rational theories for the loss of Scorpion. Just need one or two conclusive pieces of evidence to convince this juror.
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Anonymous

Posted July 1, 2007

Not convinced..but thought provoking

Could the Scorpion have been sunk by a torpedo fired by a Russian submarine? The author gathers the evidence for this scenario and submits it to the reader in a logical and orderly manner. The possibility is explored in interviews with Navy commanders responsible for the search and the inquiry for the lost submarine. While you may be convinced, I have a hard time believing a conspiracy that involved this many people could have remained a secret in the Submarine Service. I remember the day the submarine didn't return and the impact on the Norfolk area Navy community, I served in submarines myself for 20 years. Never, in my memory, was a hint of this theory mentioned. The author writes a good story, but it failed to convince me.
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