I just have real doubts it was the Navy. Too many people on board, and no real leaks? I guess I should look into it more. Have any sailers talked about it?
That is the single rejoinder that gives me pause.
I do have to admit I’m still a little disappointed and amazed that NOT ONE of the Benghazi 40 —who most likely were totally convinced they would die that night— has gone ahead and blabbed.
And then, the original A-bomb development CITY in New Mexico during WW2, there were almost no leaks.
One freeper who seems to have knowledge of such things suspects that was an early live fire test of a missile that he knew was under development at the time. He said the missile builder he has in mind had their own sub and the crew would have been just the few technicians involved in a black program. People used to keeping information tight. The program manager blundered by running his test too close to airline traffic and the missile locked on to TWA instead of the target drone.