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 the early 1970s the CIA built a gigantic ship called the Hughes Glomar Explorer to lift a sunken Soviet submarine from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, according to a declassified history by the US ...
The owners of a ship used to execute one of the most world’s most complicated and expensive pieces of espionage have sold it for scrap. The scrapping of the 51,000 ton GSF Explorer — repurposed in the ...
MANHATTAN - The New York City Police Department's latest tool for frustrating information requests gets its name from a CIA salvage ship used to rescue a Soviet submarine during the Cold War. The ...
The saga of the Glomar Explorer begins with the disappearance of a Russian submarine, the K-129, in the Pacific Ocean about 1,560 miles northwest of Hawaii on March 8, 1968. Russian vessels tried to ...