Inside the CIA’s Most Daring Underwater Heist: Stealing a Soviet Nuclear Sub From the Ocean Floor

Hughes was going to do the unthinkable with it: mine manganese nodules right from the ocean floor. So, when the Glomar sailed ...
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How the CIA spent $3.3 billion on a secret salvage operation

In the 1970s, the CIA launched one of its most ambitious missions - Project Azorian. This $3.3 billion operation used a specially built ship to secretly recover a Soviet submarine from the ocean ...
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Details of Russian sub raising revealed

WASHINGTON - In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the ...
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Gone fishing: Secret hunt for a sunken Soviet sub

In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the wreck and made ...