Sherry Sontag;Christopher Drew (65 page)

Red Austin, 1939... : courtesy of Richard M. Austin

Gudgeon ...: U.S. Naval Historical Center

Gudgeon inset: courtesy of a Gudgeon crew member

With the undying belief...: Electric Boat Co.

Nautilus was the first...: Electric Boat Co.

If the president could have Airforce One...: U.S. Navy photo

John Craven dreamed...: U.S. Navy photographic center, R.P. Allan, 1969

Even before the Navy sent...: U.S. Navy photo taken by crew of Trieste II

Halibut had a mammoth...: U.S. Navy photo

Halibut patch: U.S. Navy photo

As he pushed Westinghouse engineers...: photo taken for this book of Westinghouse wire brush bestowed upon Craven

Commander C. Edward Moore...: U.S. Navy Photo

Scorpion was outside of Naples, 1969...: U.S. Naval Historical Center courtesy of H. John R. Holland

Craven (left) Harry Jackson and...: U.S. Navy photo

Scorpion's shattered hull, 1969...: U.S. Navy photo

Commander Whitey Mack...: Newport News (Va.) Daily Press

When Lapon rode home...: photo taken by a Lapon crew member

Lapon and Mack were immortalized...: photographs of original album cover taken for this book

After Tautog crashed...: Defense Visual Information Center, March Air Reserve Base, California

Tautog patch: U.S. Navy photo

Commander Buele Balderston...: U.S. Navy photo, courtesy of Irene L. Balderston

Boris Bagdasaryan...: Courtesy of Joshua Handler

Captain .lames Bradley, 1973...: U.S. Navy Photo, courtesy of Peggy Bradley

The Navy announced that Halibut...: U.S. Navy photo

Fritz Harlfinger, 1963...: U.S. Naval Historical Center, W. R. Maip

Crammed full of stolen...: Sherry Sontag

The CIA commissioned...: Times front page, Copyright © 1975 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission

Glomar Explorer photos...: Sherry Sontag

One of the oldest and most broken...: U.S. Navy Photo

When the Soviets discovered...: Russian Ministry of Security's museum at the notorious Lubyanka Prison

The Navy feared. .. : U.S. Navy photo

When Richard Buchanan...: Defense Visual Information Center, March Air Reserve Base, California

Waldo Lyon's decades-long adventures, 1958...: U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory

The Soviets had also, 1966...: U.S. Navy V.P. Surveillance Aircraft photo, U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory

Subs traveled to the Arctic, 1987, taken at North Pole of HMS Superb, USS Billfish, (SSN-676), USS Sea Devil (SSN-664), U.S. Navy photo; sub close-up, 1987, U.S. Navy photo

Susan Nesbitt, sits with...: Anniversary Memorial Service for the loss of Scorpion, Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.

Danielle Petersen-Dixon hugs...: Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot

Throughout the United States...: Bill Tiernan, The Virginian-Pilot

Sherry Sontag is an investigative journalist who, before turning to Blind Man's Bluff, was a staff writer for the National Law Journal. While there, she wrote about the Soviet Union, international affairs, and domestic scandals in securities and banking. Prior to that, Sontag wrote for the New York Times. A lifelong resident of New York, she has degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College.

Christopher Drew is an investigative reporter and projects editor at the New York Times. He joined the Times in 1995 after working for nearly a decade in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Chicago Tribune, where he wrote about national security issues and won two awards from the White House Correspondents' Association. Drew also has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the TimesPicayune in New Orleans, where he was horn and raised and graduated from Tulane University.

Annette Lawrence Drew, the hook's researcher, has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. She and Christopher Drew are married and live with their daughter, Celia, in Montclair, New Jersey.

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