"Secret CIA Operation to Recover Lost Soviet Submarine" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Sep 2018 12:24 p.m. PST |
"The story is straight out of a Cold War techno-thriller. It's February 1968, and the Soviet submarine K-129 has disappeared while conducting its ordinary patrols in the Pacific Ocean. The Soviets conducted a massive search, using all of their air, sea and submarine resources, but by March they officially declared the K-129 and its crew lost. The submarine was loaded with a Soviet nuclear missile, and the United States intelligence and military communities saw the chance to recover not just an enemy submarine but also a nuclear warhead as an opportunity they could not pass up. Thus, Project Azorian was born. This project would be among the most expensive and top secret operations of the Cold War. However, for all the time, money and manpower put into it, the operation only achieved modest levels of success…."
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