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Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment)[1] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer.[2][3] The 1968 sinking of K-129 occurred about 1,560 miles (2,510 km) northwest of Hawaii.[4] Project Azorian was one of the most complex, expensive, and covert intelligence operations of the Cold War at a cost of about $800 million, or $4.9 billion today. The US designed the recovery ship and its lifting cradle using concepts developed with Global Marine (see Project Mohole) that used their precision stability equipment to keep the ship nearly stationary above the target while lowering nearly three miles (4.8 km) of pipe. They worked with scientists to develop methods for preserving paper that had been underwater for years in hopes of being able to recover and read the submarine's codebooks. The reasons

Project Azorian - Wikipedia Jump to content Coordinates : 40°06′N 179°54′E  /  40.1°N 179.9°E  / 40.1; 179.9 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1974 CIA project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 Project Azorian Hughes Glomar Explorer Date 1974 Location 16,500 feet (5,000 m) below the Pacific Ocean Participants CIA , U.S. Navy Outcome Successful recovery of a portion of Soviet submarine K-129 Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) [ 1 ] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project

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