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Project Azorian - The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 (Paperback)
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Project Azorian - The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 (Paperback)
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In early August 1974, despite incredible political, military and
intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the
CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile
submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean. This
audacious effort was carried out under the cover of an undersea
mining operation sponsored by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.
“Azorian”—incorrectly identified as Project Jennifer by the
press— was the most ambitious ocean engineering endeavour ever
attempted and can be compared to the 1969 moon landing for its
level of technological achievement. Following the sinking of a
Soviet missile submarine in March 1968, U.S. intelligence agencies
were able to determine the precise location and to develop a means
of raising the submarine from a depth of 16,560 feet. Previously,
the deepest salvage attempt of a submarine had been accomplished at
245 feet. The remarkable effort to reach the K-129, which contained
nuclear-armed torpedoes and missiles as well as crypto-logic
equipment, was conducted with Soviet naval ships a few hundred
yards from the lift ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer. While other
books have been published about this secret project, none has
provided an accurate and detailed account of this remarkable
undertaking. To fully document the story, the authors conducted
extensive interviews with men who were on board the Glomar Explorer
and the USS Halibut, the submarine that found the wreckage, as well
as with U.S. naval intelligence officers and with Soviet naval
officers and scientists. The authors had access to the Glomar
Explorer’s logs and to other documents from U.S. and Soviet
sources. The book is based, in part, on the research for Michael
White's ground-breaking documentary film Azorian: The Raising of
the “K-129”, released in late 2009. As a result of the research
for the book and the documentary, the CIA was forced to issue a
report on Project Azorian in early 2010, even though they tried to
withhold all of the details from the public record by redacting
one-third of that document. In this book, the untold story of the
CIA’s Project Azorian is finally revealed after decades of
secrecy.
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