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DC-ARCH-009 · Central Intelligence Agency
Howard Hughes, a Sunken Soviet Submarine, and the CIA
The CIA operation to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific.
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About this document
The CIA's operation to raise the Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the floor of the Pacific, using a purpose-built ship, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, behind a cover story about deep-sea mining for Howard Hughes. The lift was attempted in August 1974 and recovered part of the hull.
In part. The Agency's internal history of the operation, from its in-house journal Studies in Intelligence, was released in 2010 after a Freedom of Information request by the National Security Archive, with passages withheld. The refusal that gave the language "can neither confirm nor deny" its name came out of this same operation.
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