ADVANCE BRIEFING • BLIND TREASON

The Navy Won’t Admit It Happened.

In 1997, a Russian vessel fired a laser at me during a surveillance mission over the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In
August 2003 the Department of Defense Inspector General found sufficient basis
for the Secretary of the Navy to consider me for the Purple Heart, and
recommended the Navy resolve the acknowledged uncertainty over whether my eye
wounds were caused by an act of a hostile foreign force. The Navy declined,
holding that there was no basis to declare the vessel a hostile force or the
incident a terrorist attack.

The Navy granted the fact and denied the consequence.

This is the story they spent twenty-five years keeping quiet.

Man holding two copies of 'Blind Treason' by Jack Daly with a blurred outdoor background

Meet JACK DALY

My name is Jack Daly. I served as a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer. Blind Treason is the true account of what happened that day, what the laser did to me, and what my own government did afterward to make sure no one ever heard about it.

I masked names. I filed the FOIA requests. I held onto the documents they assumed would rot in a storage unit. The full story releases in September 2026 — but I’m opening the first pages now to the readers who want to be there from the start.

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“The DoD Inspector General found Jack Daly eligible for the Purple Heart. The Navy still refuses to award it. Granting it would mean admitting the laser attack on him actually occurred.”— LtCol Geoff Lyon, Judge Advocate, USMC (Ret.)