Event Brief
CIA cover story used to recover K-129 submarine chunk
By The BriefBrief · Sources (1)
Filed: Sep 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM ET
Summary: In 1974, the CIA-backed Glomar Explorer used a cover story about mining manganese nodules to recover a chunk of the Soviet ballistic submarine K-129, a Golf II lost in the Pacific in March 1968. The article says part of the submarine later slid back below the waves.
WHO: CIA and the Glomar Explorer operation
WHAT: CIA used a cover story to recover part of the Soviet submarine K-129, though part of the sub slid back below the waves.
WHEN: 1974
WHERE: Pacific Ocean
WHY: To conceal the true purpose of recovering the sunken Soviet submarine K-129.
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