The Russians Are Coming Here

We’ve been reading a good deal about how the Soviets have been taunting the Swedes with their dangerous game of underwater hide-andseek. Well, as compared with the ongoing impudence the Soviets have been displaying toward the United States, what they are doing to Sweden is a minor nuisance. Hold on to your seats: The Soviets have put a submarine so close to the U.S. mainland that small pleasure craft sail directly above it, and youngsters water-ski over it.

One of the better kept secrets of the Defense Department is that since August a Soviet submarine of the Victor class has been trolling the waters of the Juan de Fuca Strait, a ten-to-15-mile-wide strip of water separating the state of Washington from British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. The strait flows from the Pacific into Puget Sound where its waters fan out into the labyrinthine bays and inlets of the northwestern quadrant of Washington, including Hood Canal, where the Bangor naval base is located, the home berth of our prized nuclearpowered Trident submarine, the Ohio.

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We’ve been reading a good deal about how the Soviets have been taunting the Swedes with their dangerous game of underwater hide-andseek. Well, as compared with the ongoing impudence the Soviets have been displaying toward the United States, what they are doing to Sweden is a minor nuisance. Hold on to your seats: The Soviets have put a submarine so close to the U.S. mainland that small pleasure craft sail directly above it, and youngsters water-ski over it.

One of the better kept secrets of the Defense Department is that since August a Soviet submarine of the Victor class has been trolling the waters of the Juan de Fuca Strait, a ten-to-15-mile-wide strip of water separating the state of Washington from British Columbia’s Vancouver Island. The strait flows from the Pacific into Puget Sound where its waters fan out into the labyrinthine bays and inlets of the northwestern quadrant of Washington, including Hood Canal, where the Bangor naval base is located, the home berth of our prized nuclearpowered Trident submarine, the Ohio.