As you can guess from the spoiler-alert title of The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History, the CIA was able to retrieve ...

Truth is often stranger than fiction which is why history novels are so fun to read. That is the case with "The Taking of K-129." K-129 was a Russian sub lost at sea and found by the U.S. The CIA ...

It kind of reminds me of that embarrassing scene in the Hunt for Red October where the Soviet ambassador to the U.S. asks an American official for help finding another missing sub. Well, Cold War ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Today in History. Followed categories will be added to My News. Noticing unusual activity in the area the US checked data from its listening posts (SOSUS or sound ...

In March 1968, Soviet submarine K-129 sank 1,560 miles northwest of Hawaii. The sub carried more than 70 crewman, none of whom survived. It also held several 4-megaton nuclear warheads and a slew of ...

In early 1968, the Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarine K-129 went abruptly missing near American waters off the coasts of Hawaii. The Soviets were unable to locate their incredibly powerful ...

In 1968 — the middle of the Cold War — the Soviet submarine K-129 disappeared, taking with it its 98-member crew, three nuclear ballistic missiles and a tempting treasure trove of Soviet secrets.

Chilling Cold War stories are always better experienced on your computer screen than aboard a dank, cramped and doomed Soviet Golf-class submarine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The missile-laden ...

New York: Random House Dutton, 2017. Pp. x, 440. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $17.00 paper. ISBN: 1101984457 Howard Hughes, the K-129, and “Project Azorian ...

The Cold War wasn’t a shooting conflict, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t casualties. Nor does it mean that the United States and the Soviet Union didn’t use every resource at their disposal to ...