Many of the disparate band of scientists and engineers who gathered in La Spezia to set up the new NATO SACLANT Anti-Submarine Warfare Centre (SACLANTCEN) had been recruited from their own national defense establishments. At that time, I was the only Brit to join straight from university where I had just completed my dissertation on marine geophysics. This was my first real job.

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