In Deepest Secrecy: Dutch Submarine Espionage Operations from 1968 to 1991

by Jaime Karremann, Deborah Hogg (Editor), Gale Winskill (Editor)

'You need to realise that we are operating as if it were war.'
During the Cold War, six Dutch submarines secretly gathered intelligence about the Soviet Navy. Only a handful of people outside the Royal Netherlands Navy were aware of these operations, as they were not NATO operations. For the first time, In Deepest Secrecy describes these top-secret deployments in detail. On the basis of interviews and archival research, Jaime Karremann reveals how the Dutch submarines followed, photographed and listened to Soviet ships unnoticed, from the freezing Arctic Ocean to shallow waters near Egypt.
In Deepest Secrecy is a book about people, boats and, above all, the underwater adventures that have never before been made public.

Genres: Military Fiction

254 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2018

Reviews

[Richard van Balen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Must read for anyone with an interest in the Dutch submarine service.

[Kasper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considering this is Karreman’s first ever book, this is very well written. An interesting and totally unknown story to myself and the larger public. While the translation from Dutch to English, at times, leaves much to be desired, I still really enjoyed reading this.

[Matthias Noch · Rating 5 out of 5]

A well-written book that fills in an essential gap in the Cold War submarine operations history.

[Matt Caris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining enough and certainly a service arm I was unfamiliar with, but if you’ve ready anything like Blind Man’s Bluff this will seem a bit quaint in comparison.