WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — 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 ...

PROJECT AZORIAN: THE CIA AND THE RAISING OF THE K-129 By Norman Polmar and Michael White Naval Institute Press, $29.95, 320 pages In the world of intelligence, the most successful deception operation ...

In 1974, the United States attempted to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet, in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. The submarine had been lost in March 1968. The operation to ...

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 ...

Recently declassified documents reveal new details about Project AZORIAN: a brazen, $800-million CIA initiative to covertly salvage a Soviet nuclear submarine in plain sight of the entire world. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hughes Glomar Explorer. Wikimedia Commons In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence ...

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 wreck and made ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Los Angeles & beyond. Catalina Island Museum presents Project Azorian: The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation, a lecture detailing the story of the highly secret and ...