The Resource The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history, Josh Dean
The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history, Josh Dean
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- A true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine after it sank in the Pacific Ocean
- "In the early hours of February 25, 1968, Russian nuclear-armed submarine K-129 left Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished. As the Soviet Navy searched in vain for the lost vessel, a small, highly classified American operation found it--wrecked at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The sub lay three miles down, but the potential intelligence assets on board--the nuclear warheads, battle orders, and cryptological machines--presented an extraordinary opportunity. So began Project Azorian, a top secret mission that took six years, cost an estimated $800 million, and would become the largest and most daring covert operation in history. After the US Navy declared retrieving the sub "impossible, " the mission fell to the CIA's burgeoning Directorate of Science and Technology, which commissioned the most expensive ship ever built [the Hughes Glomar Explorer] and told the world that it belonged to the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, who would use the mammoth vessel to mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. In reality, a vast network of spies, scientists, and engineers attempted a project even crazier than Hughes's reputation: raising the sub directly under the watchful eyes of the Russians, at a time when nuclear annihilation was a constant fear and the opportunity to gain even the slightest advantage over one's enemy was worth massive risk."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101984437
- Label
- The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history
- Title
- The taking of K-129
- Title remainder
- how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history
- Statement of responsibility
- Josh Dean
- Title variation
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- How the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history
- Taking of K- one hundred twenty-nine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- A true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine after it sank in the Pacific Ocean
- "In the early hours of February 25, 1968, Russian nuclear-armed submarine K-129 left Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished. As the Soviet Navy searched in vain for the lost vessel, a small, highly classified American operation found it--wrecked at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The sub lay three miles down, but the potential intelligence assets on board--the nuclear warheads, battle orders, and cryptological machines--presented an extraordinary opportunity. So began Project Azorian, a top secret mission that took six years, cost an estimated $800 million, and would become the largest and most daring covert operation in history. After the US Navy declared retrieving the sub "impossible, " the mission fell to the CIA's burgeoning Directorate of Science and Technology, which commissioned the most expensive ship ever built [the Hughes Glomar Explorer] and told the world that it belonged to the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, who would use the mammoth vessel to mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. In reality, a vast network of spies, scientists, and engineers attempted a project even crazier than Hughes's reputation: raising the sub directly under the watchful eyes of the Russians, at a time when nuclear annihilation was a constant fear and the opportunity to gain even the slightest advantage over one's enemy was worth massive risk."--Jacket
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dean, Josh
- Dewey number
- 910.9164/9
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
- filmographies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- K-129 (Submarine)
- Glomar Explorer (Ship)
- Soviet Union
- United States
- Jennifer Project
- Submarine disasters
- Label
- The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history, Josh Dean
- Bibliography note
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index
- Includes filmography
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- Control code
- ocn992688969
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101984437
- Lccn
- 2017011991
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- unmediated
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- The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history, Josh Dean
- Bibliography note
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index
- Includes filmography
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn992688969
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 431 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101984437
- Lccn
- 2017011991
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