This is a 1974 memo from National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger saying that one of its ballistic missile submarines was involved in a crash with a Soviet sub off the coast of Scotland.
This is a 1974 memo from National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger saying that one of its ballistic missile submarines was involved in a crash with a Soviet sub off the coast of Scotland.
This is a 1974 memo from National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger saying that one of its ballistic missile submarines was involved in a crash with a Soviet sub off the coast of Scotland.
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