Word: trawler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elaborated in detail as U.S. and South Vietnamese officials met on Nimitz Hill, the U.S. naval headquarters overlooking the Philippine Sea. Also in clear view from the spacious verandas on the Hill was a tangible reminder of the larger stakes-and risks-in the Viet Nam war: the Soviet trawler Gidrofon, laden with electronic snooping gear, lying just beyond the three-mile limit in order to monitor U.S. B-52 flights to Viet Nam and track the six Polaris subs based at Guam...
Western intelligence sources last week dismissed the Deane theory as "naive" and insisted that Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs was a Soviet-planned breakout, abetted perhaps by London "scarperers" (specialists in prison escapes). Blake, they guessed, was already en route to Moscow-perhaps in a Russian trawler. Even Author John le Carré, whose own character Alec Leamas would have ultimately been more cynical, found the triple-agent theory "romantic nonsense...
...chased by one of the scruffiest vessels in the U.S. Navy. The U.S.S. Conserver is a rust-pitted, rickety tug, built in 1945 and capable of a scant 14 knots ("with plenty of wind and a little bit of lying"). Nonetheless, it managed to close on the trawler's starboard side and station itself between the Russian and the carrier, thus averting, if not a collision, then at least an embarrassing change of course on the carrier's part. Frustrated, the Russian ship went back to sniff among the flotsam...
Most of the time, the Conserver and the Russian trawler Gidrofon (Hydrophone), lie dead in the water, the 'two crews gawking at each other through binoculars. The Russians sunbathe and swim from a rubber life raft; the Americans lounge on the fantail, reading or tossing rubber horseshoes...
...crisp black Cyrillic letters of its name. U.S. helicopters hovered overhead, watching the Russians watching them, and a Navy resupply ship circled near by while its band serenaded the Gidrofon with strident capitalist rock 'n' roll. No sooner had the Gidrofon left than a new trawler appeared on Yankee Station: the Ampermetr. The Conserver was also relieved; Hilder and his crew set off for some well-deserved R and R in Hong Kong, and a fresh set of skunk chasers took over the watch...