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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sharp, David H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency.
Soviet Union. > Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot.
K-129 (Submarine)
Glomar Explorer (Ship)
Soviet Union. > Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot > Submarine forces > History.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century.
Submarine forces.
Submarine disasters.
Jennifer Project.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Sous-marins > Accidents > URSS.
Submarine disasters > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780700622511

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