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K-129 was a Project 629A (Russian: проект 629А, proyekt 629A; NATO reporting name Golf II–class) diesel-electric-powered ballistic-missile submarine that served in the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy.
Project Azorian (also called "Jennifer" by the press after its Top Secret Security Compartment) [1] was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer.
Soviet submarine K-129 may refer to one or both of the following submarines of the Soviet Navy: Soviet submarine K-129 (1960), a Golf-class (Project 629) diesel-electric ballistic missile submarine that sank in March 1968; partially salvaged by the United States Navy by Glomar Explorer; Soviet submarine K-129 (1981), a Delta III-class nuclear ...
A secret, costly episode of the Cold War is chronicled in a documentary on Project Azorian, a CIA mission that hoped to claim a sunken Russian submarine.
The Soviet submarine K-129 carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it was lost with all hands, but as it was a diesel-electric submarine, it is not included in the list. (K-129 was partly recovered by the U.S. Project Azorian.) The two USN submarines belonged to Submarine Force Atlantic, in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
Gorbachev and the Politburo were apparently aware of Project Azorian, the CIA’s secret operation to raise another sunken Soviet missile submarine, K-129, off the coast of Hawaii in 1974.
The Soviet diesel-electric submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific Ocean 1,560 miles (2,510 km) NW of Hawaii, [7] on 8 March 1968. The USS Halibut identified the wreck site and the CIA crafted an elaborate and highly secret plan to recover the submarine for intelligence purposes.
K-129. The Soviet submarine K-129. (CIA) The Soviet Union lost contact with one of its ballistic missile submarines, the K-129, and its 98 crew members in March 1968 while it was in the middle of ...