Detachment November: The Unclassified Story of U.S. Navy Seabees in Diplomatic Security

In 1964, as the Cold War raged, a clandestine team of U.S. Navy Seabees embarked on a high-stakes mission in the heart of Moscow. Code-named Detachment November, their mission was to protect American secrets in a hostile land. That mission forged a partnership between the State Department and the Seabees that has safeguarded U.S. personnel and classified information for over fifty-five years.

Detachment November is the untold story of that partnership—the Naval Support Unit (NSU).

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