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The $300 million CIA plot to steal a nuclear submarine with a giant claw

Operation Azorian was the largest and most expensive covert mission in history, a multi-million-dollar CIA plot to secretly ...
National Security Journal on MSN

The Navy Had a Nuclear Submarine That Could Tap Russia’s Undersea Cables and Self Destruct

USS Halibut began life as a Regulus cruise-missile submarine, but its real legacy came after a radical refit turned it into a one-of-a-kind spy boat. -The Navy ripped out its obsolete missiles, added ...
AOL

How the CIA teamed up with a reclusive billionaire for a secret mission to raise a Soviet submarine sunk 3 miles under the ocean

In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence operations. Project Azorian involved the recovery of a Soviet submarine that had sunk deep in the Pacific. To keep the ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ Review: An Undercover, Underwater Mission

There are a lot of numbers in the historical documentary “Neither Confirm Nor Deny,” all of them impressive: one 2,000-ton Soviet submarine; 98 dead sailors; three nuclear missiles; three miles below ...
The National Interest

USS Halibut: The U.S. Navy Spy Submarine Russia Could Not Match

One of the most unusual submarines of the Cold War was named after one of the most unusual fish in the sea. Halibut are flatfish, bottom-dwelling predators that, unlike conventional fish, lie sideways ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet Sub Off The Ocean Floor

Author Josh Dean describes how the CIA worked to secretly resurface a sub that the Soviet Union considered lost. Their cover story involved... 'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet ...