Operation Winterwind: When CIA Submarines Entered Soviet Harbors at Night

Dr.Docs' Take

Operation Winterwind, the audacious claim of CIA-linked submarines slipping into Soviet harbors at night to gather intelligence right under the enemy's nose. I keep one eyebrow up on the specifics and stay riveted by the genre, because the real undersea espionage of the era was every bit this bold. Tapping cables on the ocean floor was standard practice. Watch it for the sheer, cold audacity of the war fought in the dark and the deep.

1. "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherry Sontag - THE definitive book on Cold War submarine espionage. Contains detailed accounts of submarine collisions just like USS Baton Rouge. This is the book I used to research this episode. 2. "Red November" by W. Craig Reed - Focuses specifically on U.S.-Soviet submarine confrontations in waters where collisions like Baton Rouge happened regularly. Includes incidents never before declassified.

Courtesy of Cold War Chronicles on YouTube. Watch on YouTube ↗

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