In early 1968, the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 mysteriously disappeared near Hawaii, prompting a covert search.

What happens when the CIA wants to steal a Soviet submarine? In 1968, a Soviet nuclear sub sank in the Pacific. The US saw an opportunity—but how do you recover a submarine from 16,000 feet below the ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. Noticing unusual activity in the area the US checked data from its listening posts (SOSUS or ...

Hughes did. Though Hughes had nothing directly to do with Project Azorian, as the salvage operation was called, he did lend his name to the media campaign and let his company act as a conduit for ...

Instead, Glomar was involved in a secret CIA mission dubbed “Project Azorian.” The goal? To use the ship’s hidden internal hydraulic system to drop a claw 16,500 feet into the depths of the ...

More than 50 years ago, the Chesapeake 1000 (originally dubbed the Sun 800) played a vital role in a secret CIA mission called Project Azorian, a multiyear effort to recover a sunken Soviet ...

Anderson’s sources told him Project Azorian was too expensive and sapped resources from other intelligence programs, Bennett said. The submarine also was diesel-powered and generations behind ...

Anderson’s sources told him Project Azorian was too expensive and sapped resources from other intelligence programs, Bennett said. The submarine also was diesel-powered and generations behind ...

“The Sun 800 was built specifically to help us on the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer,” said Gene Schorsch, who was then chief of hull design for Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. The secret ...