Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Genesis
A Soviet Submarine is Lost—and Found
CIA Gets in the Game
CIA Meets Global Marine
Go-Ahead
2. The Magic Trick
The Magician's Tools
Picking the Best Lie
Who’s the Front Man?
Roles and Responsibilities
Keep a Low Profile
A Security System Named JENNIFER
The Headquarters Proxy
3. Living the Lie
Making Do with the Glomar II
The Glomar II Rides Again
The Seascope—From Minesweeper to Miner
4. Final Design
The Big Picture
The Heavy Lifter—Hughes Gomar Explorer
Three-Mile Gun Barrel—The Lifting Pipe
The Capture Vehicle Clementine
Now You See It, Now You Don't—The HMB-1
5. Getting Ready
Who’s in Charge?
The Voyage to Pier E
Going Black
Trouble Starts Early
Clementine Meets the Explorer
Integrated System Testing
The Battle for Mission Approval
6. The Recovery Mission
En Route to the Target Site
Recovery Operations
Exploitation and Burial at Sea
What Went Right? And Wrong?
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
7. Matador
Still Alive in ‘75?
Redesign for the MATADOR Mission
Under Pressure to Get It Right
AZORIAN Blown
Enter: Brezhnev; Exit: MATADOR
Winding Down
The Failure and the Success of Azorian
Epilogue
AZORIAN Fallout on the CIA
International Relationships
Legal Issues
Maintaining AZORIAN Secrets
Some Mysteries Still Remain
Appendix A: Perceptions Management and Disinformation
Appendix B: The Docking Problem
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index