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Originally Posted by Cylinder
IMO, this fact alone would place the number of people privy to the hoax in the tens of thosands - not sustainable.
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I would respectfully disagree that the secrecy is not sustainable. See the
transcript from PBS NOVA's "Submarines, Secrets, and Spies". It's a fascinating read (and better show) about one of the best secret keeping organizations on the planet.
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Originally Posted by NOVA
For forty years sub crews lived on the front lines of the Cold War. Day in, day out, they practiced launching the missiles that could unleash Armageddon. A single missile-carrying submarine could rain down more destructive power than all the bombs used in World War II. As the United States struggled against the Soviets, it pushed submarine technology to its limits. Breakthroughs gave the West supremacy at sea, but missteps cost hundred their lives. Even today, secrecy and rumor obscure what really took place.
__: The world of operational submarines and the things that they did, it's like an iceberg. We know the very tip of it, and there's a huge nine-tenths down below that we know nothing about. They just don't like to talk about it.
NARRATOR: But recently de-classified film and documents are lifted the vail on tragic and mysterious submarine accidents and on the high risk spy missions that helped win the Cold War. These are the secrets of the Cold War subs.
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__: At their height, they must have had 500 submarines in service. At the best, we have about 130 submarine in service, 150, some number like that. And the way that we make up for the lack of numbers is much better technology. We push the technology as far as we can.
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Doug.