When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it. To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help ...

After a Soviet nuclear submarine sank deep in the Pacific Ocean, US intelligence launched one of the most ambitious recovery missions in history. Project Azorian relied on extreme secrecy, ...

Now, Washington is owning up to Project Azorian, a brazen mission from the days of high-stakes and high-seas Cold War rivalry. After more than 30 years of refusing to confirm the barest facts of what ...

WASHINGTON - In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the ...

In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence operations. Project Azorian involved the recovery of a Soviet submarine that had sunk deep in the Pacific. To keep the ...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released a redacted copy of its report on Project Azorian. This was the secret 1973-4 operation that involved raising a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of ...