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100	1		_aDean, Josh, _eauthor. _9205232
245	1	4	_aThe taking of K-129 : _bhow the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history / _cJosh Dean.
246	3	0	_aHow the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history
263			_a1709
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bDutton, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index.
520			_aA true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine after it sank in the Pacific Ocean.
520			_a"In the early hours of February 25, 1968, Russian nuclear-armed submarine K-129 left Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished. As the Soviet Navy searched in vain for the lost vessel, a small, highly classified American operation found it--wrecked at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The sub lay three miles down, but the potential intelligence assets on board--the nuclear warheads, battle orders, and cryptological machines--presented an extraordinary opportunity. So began Project Azorian, a top secret mission that took six years, cost an estimated $800 million, and would become the largest and most daring covert operation in history. After the US Navy declared retrieving the sub "impossible," the mission fell to the CIA's burgeoning Directorate of Science and Technology, which commissioned the most expensive ship ever built [the Hughes Glomar Explorer] and told the world that it belonged to the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, who would use the mammoth vessel to mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. In reality, a vast network of spies, scientists, and engineers attempted a project even crazier than Hughes's reputation: raising the sub directly under the watchful eyes of the Russians, at a time when nuclear annihilation was a constant fear and the opportunity to gain even the slightest advantage over one's enemy was worth massive risk."--Jacket.
610	2	0	_aK-129 (Submarine) _9182474
610	2	0	_aGlomar Explorer (Ship) _9182473
610	1	0	_aSoviet Union. _bVoenno-Morskoĭ Flot _xSubmarine forces _xHistory. _9182472
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bCentral Intelligence Agency _xHistory. _983444
650		0	_aJennifer Project. _9182475
650		0	_aSubmarine disasters _zSoviet Union. _9182476
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