This article though is about the story of OPERATION SCOOP, an intelligence gathering mission carried out by HMS OCELOT in 1968, in the Med, against Soviet naval vessels. The Air Department of the MOD regarded the mission as an intelligence collection operation, known as OP AMEN, which appears to be the wider code for intelligence collection flights conducted under JIC tasking. Because this was a formal intelligence collection mission, and due to the way that the UK state worked, conduct of missions of this type needed Ministerial approval to proceed. OCELOT withdrew on 4th September to make a ‘check’ report, was detected by a USN Neptune, correctly assessed as OCELOT”. Its also clear that submarines are invaluable tools for intelligence collection, but they are only as good as their own intelligence feed.