The gripping story - as much as is known - of the (Howard) Hughes
Glomar Explorer, the fantastic $300M+ seagoing device for
reclaiming a Soviet sub lying three miles deep in the South
Pacific. The US "Sea Spider" underwater acoustic-detection system
for monitoring traffic throughout the entire Pacific recorded the
sub's actual demise (explosion of hydrogen fumes?) and 100 m.p.h.
stern-first crash into primal ooze so deep and dark that no
bacteria exist there (theoretically). Incredible new US sonar-TV
devices gave high-resolution 3-D pictures of the sub in its Stygian
blackness, using soundwaves reconstituted as laser lightwaves, that
were better pictures than those sent back from the moon by our
astronauts. The C.I.A. contracted with Hughes to design and build
the unbelievable recovery ship. Its control device and "claw" for
picking up the sub's sections weigh 6 million pounds!! It is the
size of two football fields, 23 stories high, and is manned by a
crew of 178 people - H-U-G-E. It had to be financed and built in
supersecrecy. After the successful recovery - and a leak to the
press - the C.I.A. admitted the whole affair but said it had all
been a great failure. Burleson's arguments show that this cover
story is riddled with holes. What to do with the ship now is only
one of the areas he opens up. (Kirkus Reviews)
In 1968 a Soviet G-class submarine mysteriously exploded and sank
to the bottom of the Pacific. With Cold War secrecy and speed, U.S.
military intelligence raced to find a way to raise the sub. In the
new preface to this edition of "The Jennifer Project," which was
first published in 1977, author Clyde Burleson discusses some of
the sources he could not reveal twenty years ago and provides an
interesting swords-to-plowshares update.
In one of the more remarkable episodes of high-tech espionage and
engineering of the Cold War, the effort to raise the Soviet sub,
code-named the "Jennifer Project," assembled a cast of players that
included top military brass, the CIA, and the eccentric millionaire
and inventor Howard Hughes.
The Project was a monumental effort to create a tool that could
reach three miles below the ocean's surface and pull the sub from
primordial muck--in secret. Financed and built by Hughes and Global
Marine under contract with the CIA, the ship created to pluck the
sub from the ooze was a technological marvel. Two football fields
in length and twenty-three stories high, the "Hughes Glomar
Explorer" held in its hull a six-"million"-pound submersible "claw"
for picking up sections of the submarine.
The project cost the U.S. government hundreds of millions of
dollars, but the intelligence community was betting that, if
successful, reclamation of the Soviet submarine would mean
accessing invaluable military knowledge as the two superpowers
neared negotiations in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks.
"The Jennifer Project" revisits a fascinating period of high-level
intrigue and invention that has remained unknown to many Americans.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(5)
(4)
