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 ...
PROJECT AZORIAN: THE CIA AND THE RAISING OF THE K-129 By Norman Polmar and Michael White Naval Institute Press, $29.95, 320 pages In the world of intelligence, the most successful deception operation ...
In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence operations. Project Azorian involved the recovery of a Soviet submarine that had sunk deep in the Pacific. To keep the ...
A secretive tale involving a sunken submarine, the billionaire Howard Hughes and the Chester shipyards will be revisited in an upcoming docuseries. "Spy Ops," a new Netflix show premiering on Friday, ...
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How the CIA spent $3.3 billion on a secret salvage operation
In the 1970s, the CIA launched one of its most ambitious missions - Project Azorian. This $3.3 billion operation used a ...
This week in adaptation news, we saw a bit more progress on the Goosebumps feature film as Jack Black has joined the cast as an author haunted by his creations come to life. Hollywood beat Hollywood!
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 ...
The otherwise fine review of Project Azorian, the CIA and the raising of the K-129 in the Feb. 4 edition of The Washington Times makes one unfortunate misstatement: Navy Intelligence officers did not ...
Recently declassified documents reveal new details about Project AZORIAN: a brazen, $800-million CIA initiative to covertly salvage a Soviet nuclear submarine in plain sight of the entire world. The ...
What happens when the CIA wants to steal a Soviet submarine? In 1968, a Soviet nuclear sub sank in the Pacific. The US saw an opportunity—but how do you recover a submarine from 16,000 feet below the ...
WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could ...
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