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The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation : Inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub /

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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Autor principal: Sharp, David H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 (344 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780700622511