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Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attemptedto salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early on August 1974. This audacious effort was completed under the cover of any undersea mining operation sponsored by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. Azorian, improperly identified as Job Jennifer by the press, was the most ambitious sea engineering endeavor ever before attempted and can be compared to the 1969 moon getting for its level of technological achievement. Following a sinking of your Soviet missile submarine in March 1968, U.S. intelligence agencies were able to determine the precise location and also to develop a method of raising the submarine from a depth of more than 16,000 toes. Previously, the deepest salvage make an effort of your submarine had been achieved at 245 toes. The remarkable effort to reach the K-129, which comprised nuclear-armed torpedoes and missiles as well as cryptographic equipment, was conducted with Soviet naval boats a few hundred back yards from the lift dispatch, the Hughes Glomar Explorer. While other catalogs have been printed about this secret project, nothing has provided a precise and detailed profile of this impressive undertaking. To totally document the story, the authors conducted extensive interviews with men who were up to speed the Glomar Explorer and the USS Halibut, the submarine that found the wreckage, as well much like U.S. naval intelligence officers and with Soviet naval officers and researchers. The authors experienced access to the Glomar Explorer's logs and also to other documents from U.S. and Soviet resources. The book is based, partly, on the study for Michael White's ground-breaking documentary film, Azorian: The Bringing up of the K-129, released in late 2009. As a result of the study for the book and the documentary film, the CIA reluctantly released a written report on Job Azorian in early on 2010, even though they attempted to withhold details which were in that simple document from the general public record by redacting one-third of it. In this book, the story of the CIA's Job Azorian is finally exposed after decades of secrecy.
