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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
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- ISBN
- 9780700618347
- Book Title
- Cia's Greatest Covert Operation : inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Transportation, Political Science, History
- Topic
- Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States / 20th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines
- Item Weight
- 16.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700618341
ISBN-13
9780700618347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111450673
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cia's Greatest Covert Operation : inside the Daring Mission to Recover a Nuclear-Armed Soviet Sub
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States / 20th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
16.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2011-041677
Reviews
"A unique firsthand account of a genuine CIA 'mission impossible.' Intelligence buffs around the world should read and learn."-- Tim Weiner , winner of the National Book Award for Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA "A gripping and unforgettable eyewitness account of high Cold War maritime espionage. I was spellbound from beginning to end."-- Richard Rhodes , winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb "A terrific story that reads like a Tom Clancy novel. Sharp's portrayal of this event is colorful, powerful, and riveting."-- Mitchell B. Lerner , author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy "A fascinating tale."-- John Prados , author of William Colby and the CIA, "An inside account by a participating CIA engineer, who describes in great detail the marvels that were the ship's recovery systems. The operation--one of the most ambitious intelligence projects ever attempted--is covered end to end in extraordinary detail."-- Seapower Magazine "Crucial for all those interested in the true nature and capabilities of American intelligence."-- Intelligencer "An outstanding book.'"-- Proceedings, U.S. Naval Academy
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
910.9164/9
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Genesis A Soviet Submarine is Lost--and Found CIA Gets in the Game CIA Meets Global Marine Go-Ahead 2. The Magic Trick The Magician's Tools Picking the Best Lie Who's the Front Man? Roles and Responsibilities Keep a Low Profile A Security System Named JENNIFER The Headquarters Proxy 3. Living the Lie Making Do with the Glomar II The Glomar II Rides Again The Seascope--From Minesweeper to Miner 4. Final Design The Big Picture The Heavy Lifter--Hughes Gomar Explorer Three-Mile Gun Barrel--The Lifting Pipe The Capture Vehicle Clementine Now You See It, Now You Don't--The HMB-1 5. Getting Ready Who's in Charge? The Voyage to Pier E Going Black Trouble Starts Early Clementine Meets the Explorer Integrated System Testing The Battle for Mission Approval 6. The Recovery Mission En Route to the Target Site Recovery Operations Exploitation and Burial at Sea What Went Right? And Wrong? No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 7. Matador Still Alive in '75? Redesign for the MATADOR Mission Under Pressure to Get It Right AZORIAN Blown Enter: Brezhnev; Exit: MATADOR Winding Down The Failure and the Success of Azorian Epilogue AZORIAN Fallout on the CIA International Relationships Legal Issues Maintaining AZORIAN Secrets Some Mysteries Still Remain Appendix A: Perceptions Management and Disinformation Appendix B: The Docking Problem Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The only insider's account of Project AZORIAN, a wildly ambitious CIA operation to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine three miles below the ocean's surface during the height of the Cold War., March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call--even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN--the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets--has been celebrated within the CIA as its greatest covert operation and hailed by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as the twentieth century's greatest marine engineering feat. While previous accounts have offered beguiling glimpses, none have had significant access to CIA personnel or documents. Now David Sharp, the mission's Director of Recovery Systems, draws upon his own recollections and personal records, ship's logs, declassified documents, and conversations with team members to shine a bright light on this remarkable but still little understood enterprise. Sharp reveals how the CIA conceived, organized, and conducted AZORIAN, including recruiting the legendary Howard Hughes to provide the "ocean mining" cover story. He takes readers onto and beneath the high seas to show the problems faced by the crew during the operation, including potential Soviet intervention and tense moments when the recovery ship itself was in danger of breaking up. He also puts a human face on key players like Carl Duckett, the head of the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate; John Parangosky, AZORIAN's program manager; John Graham, designer of the Hughes Glomar Explorer; Curtis Crooke of Global Marine Development, co-creator of the "grunt lift" recovery concept; and Oscar "Ott" Schick, manager of the Lockheed-built capture vehicle and submersible barge. A mammoth undertaking worthy of the most dramatic and spell-binding espionage fiction, Project AZORIAN harnessed American imagination and ingenuity at their highest levels. Featuring dozens of previously classified photos, Sharp's chronicle of that amazing operation plunges readers deep into the darkest shadows of the Cold War to produce the definitive account of an amazing mission.
LC Classification Number
VB231.U54S53 2012
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