Neither Confirm nor Deny : : How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency /

Neither Confirm nor Deny : : How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency / / Todd Bennett.

In 1974, the Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly an advanced deep-sea mining vessel owned by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, lowered a claw-like contraption to the floor of the Pacific Ocean. This high-tech venture was only a cover story for an even more improbable scheme: a CIA mission to retri...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Bennett, Todd,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Global America
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 14 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Old Lines 15
  • 2. The Hughes Connection
  • 3. The Rules of the Game
  • 4. Inside Job
  • 5. Fish or Cut Bait?
  • 6. Colby’s Dike
  • 7. Neither Confirm nor Deny
  • 8. Shivering from Overexposure
  • 9. Hold the Line
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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