The Taking of K-129: The Most Daring Covert Operation in History
Sep 2017 · Amberley Publishing Limited
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In late February, 1968, a Russian submarine, holding a battery of three ballistic missiles with enough nuclear material to create an explosion 50 times greater than Hiroshima, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean. The Soviet Navy used ships, subs and planes in an enormous search of open ocean, in stormy seas, where the depth ranged up to 18,000 feet. But they were looking in the wrong place. The US Navy, meanwhile, had been watching. Intelligence officials knew the sub had been lost and they began a secret operation to find it first. But once they found it, they somehow needed to retrieve it from the ocean floor. The CIA enrolled reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and commissioned the most expensive ship ever built, a technological marvel that the public was told was to mine rare minerals from the ocean floor. So began an incredible top-secret operation that took six years, and would become the largest and most expensive covert operation in history. Its name: Project Azorian. Its objective: the taking of submarine K-129.
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Jesper Thusgaard
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April 1, 2018
This is by far the best book I have read for years. I was spellbound from start to end. As an IT guy with an interest for mechanics this book was just what I wanted to read. It is a very well narrated book where difficult technical solutions are mixed with the lives and stories of the people in the project. There is no chance that a similar project could be pulled off today. Or could it....
David Rickard
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June 17, 2019
What a book and what an incredible account of one of the most fascinating covert operations of all time! I will no doubt read this again and again and again.
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August 2, 2019
Spellbinding and chilling account of USA and Russia during the Cold War.
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Josh Dean has written for dozens of national magazines including Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Men's Health and Cosmopolitan, and is a former editor at various magazines, most recently Men's Journal, where he was deputy editor. He is also one of the founding editors of PLAY, the New York Times Sports Magazine, and worked on it until it was discontinued in 2008.
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