Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Hughes Glomar Explorer. Wikimedia Commons In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence ...

In 1974, the United States attempted to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet, in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. The submarine had been lost in March 1968. The operation to ...

International secrecy. A Soviet submarine. Howard Hughes. The CIA. This story wasn’t short on intrigue. The Glomar Explorer was a giant vessel ostensibly built by the reclusive Hughes that was ...

Catalina Island Museum presents Project Azorian: The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation, a lecture detailing the story of the highly secret and elaborate 6-year effort to retrieve a sunken Soviet ...

The HMB-1 was originally developed as part of Project Azorian (more widely, but erroneously, known as ""Project Jennifer""), the top-secret effort mounted by the Central Intelligence Agency to salvage ...

ZURICH, Sept 3 (Reuters) - A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading to the scrap yard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. Sign up here.