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A Russian Nuclear Attack Submarine Sank 16,500 Feet Down: The CIA Salvaged Part of It
In 1968, the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, prompting the CIA’s ultra-secret Project Azorian. ...
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 ...
In early 1968, the Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-129 went abruptly missing near American waters off the coasts of Hawaii. The Soviets were unable to locate their incredibly powerful ...
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 ...
In 1968 — the middle of the Cold War — the Soviet submarine K-129 disappeared, taking with it its 98-member crew, three nuclear ballistic missiles and a tempting treasure trove of Soviet secrets.
Like all subs operating during the height of the Cold War, K-129 went to sea in full battle rattle. Back in Washington, deep inside the Pentagon’s inner ring, Jim Bradley had an idea. Bradley, a ...
There are a lot of numbers in the historical documentary “Neither Confirm Nor Deny,” all of them impressive: one 2,000-ton Soviet submarine; 98 dead sailors; three nuclear missiles; three miles below ...
Author Josh Dean describes how the CIA worked to secretly resurface a sub that the Soviet Union considered lost. Their cover story involved... 'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet ...
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