The CIA's greatest covert operation : inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharp, David H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2012.
Temas:
Glomar Explorer (Ship)
K-129 (Submarine)
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century.
Soviet Union. > Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot > Submarine forces > History.
Soviet Union. > Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency.
1900-1999
Jennifer Project.
Submarine disasters > Soviet Union.
Sous-marins > Accidents > URSS.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Submarine disasters.
Submarine forces.
Soviet Union.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 M.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0700622519
9780700622511

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