Stranger then fiction

[pvaneynd]

Yesterday I watched an amazing documentary on Arte on the use of subs in the cold war. In it was revealed that the intrusions of "soviet" subs into Swedish waters in the beginning of the 1980's was almost certainly caused by the USA navy! Use as subs as a terror weapon against a 'friendly' nation that was thinking of starting up negotiations with the USSR to have a kind of detente.
The more I hear of the effect of the USA on the cold war the more I think De Gaule was right all along...

Comments

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

OK, how did the US Navy make the Soviets beach their subs?

[pvaneynd]

Who told you it was a Soviet sub? The official reason was that they found tracks on the bottom of the sea, and NATO has no sub with tracks. Right?.

I found a summary (in english) by one of the people interviewed here. There was even an American page, but the rest of the site reduces the credibility quite a bit.

After seeing the power of nightmares, sources seem listed here, I've grown very suspicious of recent history...

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm thinking of the one sub that was beached and left visible at low tide, obviously Soviet.

NR-1 has bottoming wheels, but not treads - what kind of tracks?

Now, I don't doubt NATO operated subs in Swedish waters, I'd be kind of surprised if they didn't, and don't today. And I wouldn't be surprised to find we ran PsyOps against friendly nations to help 'keep them friendly'.