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U.S. Government | Task Force 157 was a small covert U.S. Navy intelligence unit that operated in the Bosporus during the 1973 Yom Kippur War and was later managed by Edwin Wilson before he was convicted of illegal arms trafficking. | 1966 | 1977 |
Task Force 157 was a small, undercover U.S. Navy intelligence unit. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, operating in the waters of the Bosporus off Turkey, it relayed data to Washington, D.C. suggesting that one of the Soviet ships leaving the Black Sea en route to the Mediterranean was carrying radioactive material. This report swept through the American intelligence community and the White House, contributing to the heightened alert status during the crisis.1
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Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 17. ↩︎