A Project Called Azorian: Doing the Impossible
code equipment and documents would be found, and her bow section with nuclear torpedoes. It would be an amazing intelligence coup if the US could secretly recover the submarine. The problem was that it lay on the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean at a depth of sixteen thousand feet. But, the Central Intelligence Agency came up with an audacious plan to recover the submarine without the Russians knowing. It became a top-secret project code named Azorian.How to Secretly Recover the SubmarineInitially, a Navy special projects group proposed using small, unmanned vehicles to recover selected components that
Russia's Medvedev Says Moscow Now Has Free Hand to Destroy Enemies' Subsea Cables over Nord Stream Blasts
officials initially suggested Russia was to blame for blowing up its own pipeline, an interpretation dismissed as idiotic by President Vladimir Putin.In recent months, U.S. newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal have reported that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency knew of a Ukrainian plot to attack the pipelines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has denied Ukraine attacked them."If we proceed from the proven complicity of Western countries in blowing up the Nord Streams, then we have no constraints - even moral - left to prevent us from
Former CIA Spy Ship Becomes Victim of Oil Slump
40 such offshore drilling rigs that have been consigned to scrap since last year. It's the end of a story that began when a Soviet G-II sub called the K-129 sank in September 1968 "with all hands, 16,500 feet below the surface of the Pacific", according to an official U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) history. The sub sank with nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and nearly 100 sailors, according to declassified documents at George Washington University's National Security Archive. According to the CIA history of the mission, called "Project Azorian",
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