Search results for [Glomar Explorer (Ship)] at NC Cardinal

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Five centuries of famous ships : from the Santa Maria to the Glomar Explorer / by Albion, Robert Greenhalgh,1896-1983.(CARDINAL)150260;

Subjects: Ships;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Neither confirm nor deny : how the Glomar mission shielded the CIA from transparency / by Bennett, M. Todd,author.(CARDINAL)861058;

Includes bibliographical references and index."In 1974, a mining vessel, the Hughes Glomar Explorer (ostensibly owned by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes), descended to the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Its purpose was not, as was publicly recorded, to tap into natural manganese deposits, but rather to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine that had mysteriously disappeared six years earlier. The secrets and intelligence onboard that submarine could, the CIA hoped, win them the underwater Cold War. In Neither Confirm Nor Deny, historian Todd Bennett recounts the logistics, drama, and media fallout of the most daring and expensive Cold War intelligence operation that the CIA carried out. When the Glomar's claw accidentally broke the submarine in half, and when burglars stole documentsfrom the Hughes mansion in Los Angeles and ransomed them to the CIA for 1 million dollars, CIA director William Colby embarked on a media campaign to silence or counter investigative reports that threatened to expose the 350 million dollar boondoggle. What followed would change the relationship between the Fourth Estate and the U.S. intelligence community and disrupt the balance of security and transparency for decades to come, coining in the process what would become known as the Glomar response: "The CIA canneither confirm nor deny....""--

Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Glomar Explorer (Ship); Cold War.; Espionage, American; Intelligence service;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6

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Project Azorian : the CIA and the raising of the K-129 / by Polmar, Norman.(CARDINAL)152180; White, Michael,1950-(CARDINAL)427418;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Glomar Explorer (Ship); K-129 (Submarine); Jennifer Project.; Submarine disasters;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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The taking of K-129 : how the CIA used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian sub in the most daring covert operation in history / by Dean, Josh,author.(CARDINAL)348547;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index.A true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine after it sank in the Pacific Ocean.

Subjects: K-129 (Submarine); Glomar Explorer (Ship); Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Jennifer Project.; Submarine disasters;

Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 22

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The CIA's greatest covert operation : inside the daring mission to recover a nuclear-armed Soviet sub / by Sharp, David H.(CARDINAL)398556;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

Subjects: Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Glomar Explorer (Ship); K-129 (Submarine); Jennifer Project.; Submarine disasters;

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Neither confirm nor deny [videorecording] / by Carter, Philip(Director),film director.; Crown, Sheryl,film producer.; Monteith, Maggie,film producer.; Simon, Christopher,1963-film producer.(CARDINAL)872258; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Sharp, David H.CIA's greatest covert operation.; Greenwich Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.; Idless Films,presenter.; Kino Lorber, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)347545; New Sparta Films,production company.(CARDINAL)873701; Northern Stories (Firm),production company.; Quoit Films,production company.;

Editor, Ben Stark ; music composed by K.Howard Hughes.During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, Neither Confirm Nor Deny tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingDVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen 1.78:1; 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Film adaptations.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Glomar Explorer (Ship); K-129 (Submarine); Cold War.; Jennifer Project.; Submarines (Ships); World politics;

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Fifty ships that changed the course of history : a nautical history of the world / by Graham, Ian,1953-author.(CARDINAL)318722;

Includes bibliographical references (page 218) and index.Introduction -- Pharaoh Khufu's Solar Barge -- The Trireme -- The Nydam Ship -- Isis -- Mora -- Zheng He's Treasure ships -- Santa Maria -- Mary Rose -- Victoria -- Mayflower -- HMS Endeavour -- HMS Victory -- HMS Sirius -- Clermont (North River Steamboat) -- SS Savannah -- HMS Beagle -- Amistad -- SS Great Britain -- HMS Rattler -- America -- HMS Challenger -- Gloire -- USS Monitor -- Cutty Sark -- Fram -- Spray -- USS Oregon -- USS Holland -- Potemkin -- HMS Dreadnought -- RMS Lusitania -- RMS Titanic -- U-21 -- SS Normandie -- Bismarck -- HMS Illustrious -- SS Patrick Henry -- Yamato -- RV Calypso -- USS Missouri -- Kon-Tiki -- SS Ideal X -- USS Nautilus -- Rainbow Warrior -- NS Lenin -- SS Torrey Canyon -- USS Enterprise -- DSV Alvin -- Glomar Explorer -- MS Allure of the Seas."A visual history of economic development in fifty ships, starting from the earliest known record, Pharaoh Khufu's solar barge (roughly 5000 years ago), to MS Allure of the Seas, the biggest passenger ship ever built (longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall)."--

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Ships; Shipping; Shipping; Navigation;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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Three miles down / by Turtledove, Harry,author.(CARDINAL)525235;

"It's 1974, and Jerry Stieglitz is a grad student in marine biology at UCLA with a side gig selling short stories to science fiction magazines, just weeks away from marrying his longtime fiancée. Then his life is upended by grim-faced men from three-letter agencies who want him to join a top-secret "Project Azorian" in the middle of the north Pacific Ocean-and they really don't take "no" for an answer. Further, they're offering enough money to solve all of his immediate problems. Joining up and swearing to secrecy, what he first learns is that Project Azorian is secretly trying to raise a sunken Russian submarine, while pretending to be harvesting undersea manganese nodules. But the dead Russian sub, while real, turns out to be a cover story as well. What's down on the ocean floor next to it is the thing that killed the sub: an alien spacecraft. Jerry's a scientist, a longhair, a storyteller, a dreamer. He stands out like a sore thumb on the Glomar Explorer, a ship full of CIA operatives, RAND Corporation eggheads, and roustabout divers. But it turns out that he's the one person in the North Pacific who's truly thought out all the ways that human-alien first contact might go. And meanwhile, it's still 1974 back on the mainland. Richard Nixon is drinking heavily and talking to the paintings on the White House walls. The USA is changing fast-and who knows what will happen when this story gets out? Three Miles Down is both a fresh and original take on First Contact, and a hugely enjoyable romp through the pop culture, political tumult, and conspiracies-within-conspiracies atmosphere that was 1974"--

Subjects: Novels.; Science fiction.; Alternative histories (Fiction); Extraterrestrial beings; International relations; Marine biology; Authors; Executive privilege (Government information);

Available copies: 21 / Total copies: 23

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