Inside the CIA’s Most Daring Underwater Heist: Stealing a Soviet Nuclear Sub From the Ocean Floor

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...
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What is the giant ship "Glormar Explorer" who took over the CIA's secret mission to raise the Soviet Union's sunken ballistic missile submarine?

It was once unfolded by the US and the Soviet UnionCold warAn accident happened that the Soviet ballistic missile submarine "K - 129" sank in the Pacific Ocean. In order to obtain confidential ...
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New Netflix Series ‘Spy Ops’ Spotlights One Of The CIA’s Most Audacious Missions — To Secretly Retrieve A Soviet Submarine On The Ocean Floor

When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it. To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help ...
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Book Review: Project Azorian, the CIA and the Raising of the K-129

In 1974, the United States attempted to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet, in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. The submarine had been lost in March 1968. The operation to ...
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‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ tells a real-life tale of spies, nukes and Howard Hughes

At the same time U.S. movie theaters in 1968 were showing nuclear sub captain Rock Hudson on a stealth mission to recover Russian secrets in “Ice Station Zebra,” a similarly risky and possibly more ...