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CIA Spy ship, Hughes Glomar Explorer, to be scrapped
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 14:11:24 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote: It was built in secrecy to recover a sunken Russian submarine. http://gcaptain.com/drillship-built-as-cia-spy-ship-to-raise-soviet-sub-falls-victim-to-oil-crash/#.VfRqMpcuM5t That was a very slick operation conceived in the Nixon administration and perhaps missed by the world in the confusion around his resignation but it was really cool. |
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