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Language: English
Published by Texas A&M University Press, 1997
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- Title
- The Jennifer Project
- Author
- Burleson, Clyde W.
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0890967946
- ISBN 13
- 9780890967942
In one of the more remarkable episodes of high-tech espionage and engineering of the Cold War, the effort to raise the Soviet sub, code-named the "Jennifer Project," assembled a cast of players that included top military brass, the CIA, and the eccentric millionaire and inventor Howard Hughes.
The Project was a monumental effort to create a tool that could reach three miles below the ocean's surface and pull the sub from primordial muckin secret. Financed and built by Hughes and Global Marine under contract with the CIA, the ship created to pluck the sub from the ooze was a technological marvel. Two football fields in length and twenty-three stories high, theHughes Glomar Explorer held in its hull a six-million-pound submersible "claw" for picking up sections of the submarine.
The project cost the U.S. government hundreds of millions of dollars, but the intelligence community was betting that, if successful, reclamation of the Soviet submarine would mean accessing invaluable military knowledge as the two superpowers neared negotiations in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks. The Jennifer Project revisits a fascinating period of high-level intrigue and invention that has remained unknown to many Americans.
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From the Author
In February 1968, K-129, a Russian Golf class submarine, sank in the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to Sea Spider, a fantastic top-secret system which tracked every Soviet vessel on or under the Pacific Ocean, we knew what had happened to K-129. The Soviets did not.
K-129 carried the latest Russian nuclear missiles and torpedoes. She was also equipped with their most advanced Ships Internal Navigation System (SINS). All told, if that boat could be salvaged, it would be the intelligence coup of the Cold War.
There was only one problem. She lay on the bottom in 17,500 feet of water. And experts said it could not be done.
The CIA ignored the experts. Using a Howard Hughes seabed mining venture as cover, they hired Global Marine Inc. to raise K-129.
Working under immense time pressure because of a weather window, brave men sacrificed their personal lives to design and build a massive ship, a barge, a claw, and a lift pipe string.
By June 1974, the ship, carrying the claw and lift pipe, was ready for this hazardous mission.
The crew faced unknown dangers.
First, the nuclear warheads, after exposure to immense water pressure, might be unstable and explode during retrieval. Then, in addition to the normal hazards of salvage, they would be alone on the vast ocean. If the Russians discovered their true purpose they would be sunk. And if the weather window closed while lifting K-129's remains, they faced the risk of snapping the pipe string, which would tear their ship in half.
While they risked their lives, Richard Nixon resigned his presidency, the CIA had reason to believe the Russians had penetrated the mission's cover, and the Soviet Union feared a military takeover of the U.S. government, so went on full military alert.
The story elements are factual, dramatic, and fascinating. The characters, including Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Richard Helms, William Colby, Leonid Brezhnev, and other key 20th century figures, are the players in the greatest spy story ever told.
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