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The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation
Sharp
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Description for The CIA's Greatest Covert Operation
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619412
SKU
V9780700619412
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About Sharp
David H. Sharp’s CIA career included providing communications support for the Bay of Pigs operation and serving as chief communications engineer for the U-2 program, as chief electronics engineer for the flight testing of OXCART, and as chief of research and development for covert photographic, audio surveillance, and communications devices used by CIA’s foreign agents.
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