The pentagon debriefed Tom Clancy during his book writing too I understand. If you picked up Jane’s Fighting Ships I could sit on the boat and read classified info about the ship while underway underwater. What the Brass Hats thought was secret wasn’t so secret. My days are were before towed array was installed on my boomer. My 1st patrol we got run over by a Russian Fast attack doing a crazy Ivan out of our baffles. We missed metal to metal contact by a hair and lost a floating wire (supposedly secret). LOOK magazine ran a picture of a seagull riding on one going by a fishing boat. The boat went by underwater. I had 3 Captains while on the 640, all Jacks, not a bad poker hand. Be Safe. 🙂
“My 1st patrol we got run over by a Russian Fast attack doing a crazy Ivan out of our baffles.”
We got outfitted with a towed array way back when. As soon as we got in deep water CO rigged for angles and dangles. After a few minutes he requested a report from sonar. No signal from array. Secure from angles and dangles.
What really got them was our final chapter where we proposed different possible non-ballistic-missile uses for the hull!