The Cia's Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-armed Soviet Sub

Name: The Cia's Greatest Covert Operation: Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-armed Soviet Sub
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ISBN: 9780700619412

ISBN-10: 0700619410

ISBN-13: 9780700619412

Edition: 2013

Authors: David H. Sharp

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March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call--even at the risk of igniting World War III.Project AZORIAN--the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets--has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century's greatest marine engineering feat. While previous…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface



Genesis


A Soviet Submarine Is Lost-and Found


CIA Gets in the Game


CIA Meets Global Marine


Go-Ahead



The Magic Trick


The Magician's Tools


Picking the Best Lie


Who's the Front Man?


Roles and Responsibilities


Keep a Low Profile


A Security System Named JENNIFER


The Headquarters Proxy



Living the Lie


Making Do with the Glomar II


The Glomar II Rides Again


The Seascope-from Minesweeper to Miner



Final Design


The Big Picture


The Heavy Lifter-Hughes Glomar Explorer


Three-Mile Gun Barrel-the Lifting Pipe


The Capture Vehicle, Clementine


Now You See It, Now You Don't-the HMB-1



Getting Ready


Who's in Charge?


The Voyage to Pier E


Going Black


Trouble Starts Early


Clementine Meets the Explorer


Integrated System Testing


The Battle for Mission Approval



The Recovery Mission


En Route to the Target Site


Recovery Operations


Exploitation and Burial at Sea


What Went Right? And Wrong?


No Good Deed Goes Unpunished



MATADOR


Still Alive in '75?


Redesign for the MATADOR Mission


Under Pressure to Get It Right


AZORIAN Blown


Enter: Brezhnev; Exit: MATADOR


Winding Down


The Failure and the Success of AZORIAN


Epilogue


AZORIAN Fallout on the CIA


International Relationships


Legal Issues


Maintaining AZORIAN Secrets


Some Mysteries Still Remain


The Armageddon Contingency Plan



Perceptions Management and Disinformation



The Docking Problem


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index