USS Scorpion

Mikeb213 · 07-14-09, 11:49 AM

Hey have any of you read the book Scorpion Down? I just finished it and there is some pretty scary stuff in it. The basic conclusion is that the Russians had sunk the Scorpion! The author brings some really hard to argue facts out. I bet a lot of you have heard of the Walker spy ring back in the 80's? Well chew on this, he admitted that he had begun giving the Russians info as early as '67 so if that was the case his primary job while in the navy was running the radio shacks on subs. He had access to all the crypto codes they had at the time! Then in January 1968 what happened? The USS Pueblo was captured.....with....all three pieces of crypto equipment that the navy used at the time either intact or some what intact. The US navy was not to worried about it because even if the crypto gear had been captured all they would have to do is change the code and then no one could read our mail.......but......if Walker was handing info over as early as 1968 the Russian's could read every bit of mail that was being sent out to the fleet for as long as they were using any of the three sets of crypto gear that were in circulation, until Walker got caught. If this were the case, they would be able to have the info for patrol areas, fleet movements ect. In the 70's I have read a lot about the Russians changing tactics for deployment of there subs. I bet a lot of there tactics came from this HUGE fall out. Can you even imagen the damage that was caused? We might have had better technology with our subs at the time, but if they knew where ships and fleets were going to be before they got there......OMG.........

07-14-09, 11:49 AM	#1
Mikeb213 Sailor man Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 49 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	USS Scorpion Hey have any of you read the book Scorpion Down? I just finished it and there is some pretty scary stuff in it. The basic conclusion is that the Russians had sunk the Scorpion! The author brings some really hard to argue facts out. I bet a lot of you have heard of the Walker spy ring back in the 80's? Well chew on this, he admitted that he had begun giving the Russians info as early as '67 so if that was the case his primary job while in the navy was running the radio shacks on subs. He had access to all the crypto codes they had at the time! Then in January 1968 what happened? The USS Pueblo was captured.....with....all three pieces of crypto equipment that the navy used at the time either intact or some what intact. The US navy was not to worried about it because even if the crypto gear had been captured all they would have to do is change the code and then no one could read our mail.......but......if Walker was handing info over as early as 1968 the Russian's could read every bit of mail that was being sent out to the fleet for as long as they were using any of the three sets of crypto gear that were in circulation, until Walker got caught. If this were the case, they would be able to have the info for patrol areas, fleet movements ect. In the 70's I have read a lot about the Russians changing tactics for deployment of there subs. I bet a lot of there tactics came from this HUGE fall out. Can you even imagen the damage that was caused? We might have had better technology with our subs at the time, but if they knew where ships and fleets were going to be before they got there......OMG.........