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The Taking of K-129 - The Most Daring Covert Operation in History (Paperback)
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The Taking of K-129 - The Most Daring Covert Operation in History (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 290
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In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of
three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an
explosion 50 times greater than Hiroshima, disappeared in the
Pacific Ocean. The Soviet Navy used ships, subs and planes in an
enormous search of open ocean, in stormy seas, where the depth
ranged up to 18,000 feet. But they were looking in the wrong place.
The US Navy, meanwhile, had been watching. Intelligence officials
knew the sub had been lost and they began a secret operation to
find it first. But once they found it, they somehow needed to
retrieve it from the ocean floor. The CIA enrolled reclusive
billionaire Howard Hughes and commissioned the most expensive ship
ever built, a technological marvel that the public was told was to
mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. So began an incredible
top-secret operation that took six years, and would become the
largest and most expensive covert operation in history. Its name:
Project Azorian. Its objective: the taking of submarine K-129.
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