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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Dean, Josh     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dean, Josh       by title:      The taking of K-129 ...       by call number:      910.91649 D281t     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 910.91649 D281t Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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