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 ...

A recreation of the CIA mission in 1974 to retrieve a Soviet sub three miles below the ocean surface. Big Media When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This video uncovers Project Azorian, the covert Cold War operation in which the United States attempted to recover a sunken Soviet submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. It details the ...