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)

2011041677


Estados Unidos. Agencia Central de Inteligencia --Operaciones encubiertas--Unión Soviética.
Glomar Explorer (Ship)
K-129 (Submarine)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency --History--20th century.
Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĉi Flot --Submarine forces--History.


Jennifer Project.
Servicio de inteligencia--Estados Unidos.
Espionaje--Estados Unidos.
Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Submarine disasters--Soviet Union.

VB 231 / S531c 2012

910.9164