Neither Confirm Nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency

by M. Todd Bennett

Book Overview

In 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a cover story for an even more improbable scheme: a CIA mission to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine. Like a Jules Verne novel with an Ian Fleming twist, the saga of the Glomar Explorer features underwater...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231193475
• ISBN13: 9780231193474
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"