WASHINGTON - In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the ...

Now, Washington is owning up to Project Azorian, a brazen mission from the days of high-stakes and high-seas Cold War rivalry. After more than 30 years of refusing to confirm the barest facts of what ...

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 ...