Project Azorian

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About Project Azorian

Project Azorian was a U. S. Central Intelligence Agency project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974, using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer. The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred approximately 1,600 miles northwest of Hawaii.

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... When news broke of what was known as Project Azorian before the rest of the submarine could be extracted, officials were told to say they could " neither confirm nor deny" what had taken place - a phrase known as the " Glomar response" and still used widely now...