truta, uss amberjack and uss requin slowly and silently went toward the mediterranean to see what was going on down there between the ussr and egypt in the silence of the waters. operation syanite was a joint israeli american venture using submarines and other covert type. uh uh intelligence gathering efforts uh against the uar, but that has logical explanation. the explanation is the uar uh was uh totally soviet equipped, they had soviet advisors, the soviet union was our arch enemy at the time, and we were concerned avalist situation with the soviet problem, we were concerned wherever the soviets showed uh showed up. and this and they had considerable influence in the united arab republic, so there were these joint ventures with israeli intelligence. even though the real battle between the two superpowers was going on underwater in the mediterranean without the use of weapons, they were actually at war. one wanted to help egypt and syria get the upper hand in the middle east and destroy israel, and the other was fighting for the victory of israel and the elimination of soviet commun