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==Soviet victim?==

==Soviet victim?==

One issue that gained ground during the 1980s was the allegation that the ''Scorpion'' was sunk after being discovered by a Soviet flotilla, which the sub had been given a message to divert from her homeward course and shadow.  Author Peter Earley postulated that in 1968 Naval communications were being read with ease, courtesy of a U.S. Navy warrant officer-turned-spy named John Walker.  Although sinking by the Soviets was, and remains, unproven, Walker did serious damage to the Navy and his country.  Top secret code books, code keys, and messages were stolen by him and passed along to the Soviets for nearly 20 years before being caught in 1985.  One of new communications machines he gave information of in 1968 was onboard USS ''Pueblo'', which was seized by [[North Korea]] soon after Walker began his spying.

One issue that gained ground during the 1980s was the allegation that the ''Scorpion'' was sunk after being discovered by a Soviet flotilla, which the sub had been given a message to divert from her homeward course and shadow.  Author Peter Earley postulated that in 1968 Naval communications were being read with ease, courtesy of a U.S. Navy warrant officer-turned-spy named John Walker.  Although sinking by the Soviets was, and remains, unproven, Walker did serious damage to the Navy and his country.  Top secret code books, code keys, and messages were stolen by him and passed along to the Soviets for nearly 20 years before being caught in 1985.  One of new communications machines he gave information of in 1968 was onboard USS ''Pueblo'', which was seized by [[North Korea]] soon after Walker began his spying.

Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler interviewed no fewer than four retired Soviet naval officers who confirmed that they sank the USS Scorpion in revenge for the loss their submarine near Hawaii.  One of them specified that a helicopter took off from one ship, fired the anti-submarine torpedo and landed on another ship so that no one could see the torpedo was gone.  After the loss of the [[USS Pueblo]], the [[Lyndon Johnson]] administration chose to cover up this atrocity rather than acknowledge the loss of another ship.<ref>All hands down : the true story of the Soviet attack on the USS Scorpion / Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.</ref>

Authors Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler interviewed no fewer than four retired Soviet naval officers who confirmed that they sank the USS Scorpion in revenge for the loss their submarine near Hawaii.  One of them specified that a helicopter took off from one ship, fired the anti-submarine torpedo and landed on another ship so that no one could see the torpedo was gone.  After the loss of the [[USS Pueblo]], the [[Lyndon Johnson]] administration chose to cover up this atrocity rather than acknowledge the loss of another ship.<ref>All hands down : the true story of the Soviet attack on the USS Scorpion / Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.</ref>