A sunken Soviet missile submarine, a CIA ship built behind a billionaire’s mask, and a mechanical claw three miles under the Pacific turned Project Azorian into one of the strangest intelligence ...

PROJECT AZORIAN: THE CIA AND THE RAISING OF THE K-129 By Norman Polmar and Michael White Naval Institute Press, $29.95, 320 pages In the world of intelligence, the most successful deception operation ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — 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 ...

Some of the most important chapters in submarine history stayed classified for decades. This collection includes Arctic surfacing missions, dry deck shelters for special operations, SOSUS underwater ...

Recently declassified documents reveal new details about Project AZORIAN: a brazen, $800-million CIA initiative to covertly salvage a Soviet nuclear submarine in plain sight of the entire world. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project ...

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 ...

3 THE NOTEBOOK North American Tour Adds 26 Cities to 2026-27 Route Catalina Island Museum presents Project Azorian: The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation, a lecture detailing the story of the highly ...