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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharp, David H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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