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Russian Submarine K-129 and the CIA Project Jennifer

Submarine | Cold War | Russia/Soviet | Salvage | Submarine and Undersea Postings | USA
This is probably one of the best stories of the Cold War. A sunken Soviet missile sub that may have been hijacked, a possible rogue missile launch against Pearl Harbor, and the Navy and CIA scrambling to find and recover the sub. Oh and there's an eccentric billionaire. I don't know if it gets any better especially since it seems to be mostly true. :-) Here are some links with a fair amount of reading and some good illustrations of the unusual and classified hardware involved in this story.

The Amazing Story of the K-129  large page on the sinking and recovery

Russian K-129 description wikipedia.org entry