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Dean, Josh
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K-129 (Submarine)
Glomar Explorer (Ship)
Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoǐ Flot -- Submarine forces -- History.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Jennifer Project.
Submarine disasters -- Soviet Union.
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Dean, Josh
K-129 (Submarine)
Glomar Explorer (Ship)
Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoǐ Flot -- Submarine forces -- History.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Jennifer Project.
Submarine disasters -- Soviet Union.
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The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in
history
/ Josh Dean.
by
Dean, Josh
Dutton, c2017.
Call #:
910.91649 D281t
Subjects
K-129 (
Submarine
)
Glomar Explorer (Ship)
Soviet
Union
.
Voenno-Morskoǐ
Flot
--
Submarine
forces
--
History
.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
--
History
.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Jennifer Project.
Submarine
disasters
--
Soviet
Union
.
ISBN:
9781101984437 (hc.)
1101984430 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in
history
Description:
431 p., [8] p. of plates ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index.
Summary:
"In the early hours of February 25, 1968, Russian nuclear-armed
submarine
K-129 left Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished. As the
Soviet
Navy searched in vain for the lost vessel, a small, highly classified American operation found it--wrecked at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The sub lay three miles down, but the potential intelligence assets on board--the nuclear warheads, battle orders, and cryptological machines--presented an extraordinary opportunity. So began Project Azorian, a top secret mission that took six years, cost an estimated $800 million, and would become the largest and most daring covert operation in
history
. After the US Navy declared retrieving the sub "impossible," the mission fell to the CIA's burgeoning Directorate of Science and Technology, which commissioned the most expensive ship ever built [the Hughes Glomar Explorer] and told the world that it belonged to the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, who would use the mammoth vessel to mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. In reality, a vast network of spies, scientists, and engineers attempted a project even crazier than Hughes's reputation: raising the sub directly under the watchful eyes of the Russians, at a time when nuclear annihilation was a constant fear and the opportunity to gain even the slightest advantage over one's enemy was worth massive risk."--Jacket.
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