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

Title
The CIA's greatest covert operation : inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub / David H. Sharp.
Author
Sharp, David H.
Publication
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2012], ©2012.

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Description
xiii, 328 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
Subject
  • Glomar Explorer (Ship)
  • K-129 (Submarine)
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century
  • Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot > History
  • Jennifer Project
  • Submarine disasters > Soviet Union
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9780700618347 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0700618341 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011041677
OCLC
  • ocn756837097
  • SCSB-5657146
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries