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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Table of Contents:
- 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