WASHINGTON - In 1974, far out in the Pacific, a U.S. ship pretending to be a deep-sea mining vessel fished a sunken Soviet nuclear-armed submarine out of the ocean depths, took what it could of the ...

Now, Washington is owning up to Project Azorian, a brazen mission from the days of high-stakes and high-seas Cold War rivalry. After more than 30 years of refusing to confirm the barest facts of what ...

At the same time U.S. movie theaters in 1968 were showing nuclear sub captain Rock Hudson on a stealth mission to recover Russian secrets in “Ice Station Zebra,” a similarly risky and possibly more ...

In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence operations. Project Azorian involved the recovery of a Soviet submarine that had sunk deep in the Pacific. To keep the ...