The CIA's greatest covert operation inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub
Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean
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Lawrence, KS
University Press of Kansas
2012
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The CIA's greatest covert operation |b inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub |c David H. Sharp |
| 260 | |a Lawrence, KS |b University Press of Kansas |c 2012 | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 328 p. |b ill. |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Genesis -- A Soviet Submarine Is Lost---and Found -- CIA Gets in the Game -- CIA Meets Global Marine -- Go-Ahead -- 2. The Magic Trick -- The Magician's Tools -- Picking the Best Lie -- Who's the Front Man? -- Roles and Responsibilities -- Keep a Low Profile -- A Security System Named JENNIFER -- The Headquarters Proxy -- 3. Living the Lie -- Making Do with the Glomar II -- The Glomar II Rides Again -- The Seascope---from Minesweeper to Miner -- 4. Final Design -- The Big Picture -- The Heavy Lifter---Hughes Glomar Explorer -- Three-Mile Gun Barrel---the Lifting Pipe -- The Capture Vehicle, Clementine -- Now You See It, Now You Don't---the HMB-1 -- 5. Getting Ready -- Who's in Charge? -- The Voyage to Pier E -- Going Black -- Trouble Starts Early -- Clementine Meets the Explorer -- The Battle for Mission Approval -- 6. The Recovery Mission -- En Route to the Target Site -- Recovery Operations -- Exploitation and Burial at Sea -- What Went Right? And Wrong? -- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished -- 7. Matador -- Still Alive in 7̀5? -- Redesign for the MATADOR Mission -- Under Pressure to Get It Right -- AZORIAN Blown -- Enter: Brezhnev; Exit: MATADOR -- Winding Down -- The Failure and the Success of AZORIAN -- Epilogue -- AZORIAN Fallout on the CIA -- International Relationships -- Legal Issues -- Maintaining AZORIAN Secrets -- Some Mysteries Still Remain -- The Armageddon Contingency Plan -- App.A. Perceptions Management and Disinformation -- App.B. The Docking Problem | |
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