The CIA's greatest covert operation : inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub /

Sharp, David H.

The CIA's greatest covert operation : inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub / David H. Sharp - Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2012 - xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

9780700618347 (cloth : alk. paper) 0700618341 (cloth : alk. paper)


submarines--navy--history--accidents--USSR
nuclear weapons--USSR


USA--intelligence

CIA Jennifer Project