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Neither Confirm nor Deny : How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency /
In 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a cover story for an even more improbable scheme: a CIA mission to retri...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Global America
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Old Lines 15
- 2. The Hughes Connection
- 3. The Rules of the Game
- 4. Inside Job
- 5. Fish or Cut Bait?
- 6. Colby's Dike
- 7. Neither Confirm nor Deny
- 8. Shivering from Overexposure
- 9. Hold the Line
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index