Key Points and Submarine - In 1968, the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific, prompting the CIA’s ultra-secret Project Azorian. -Using Howard Hughes’ purpose-built Glomar ...
When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it. To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help ...
At the same time U.S. movie theaters in 1968 were showing nuclear sub captain Rock Hudson on a stealth mission to recover Russian secrets in “Ice Station Zebra,” a similarly risky and possibly more ...