Operation Matador (1975)
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Operation Matador was Central Intelligence Agency
plan in 1975 to utilise the recovery barge Glomar Explorer to recover the remainder of the Soviet submarine K-129
left on the sea floor by the earlier Project Azorian. The operation was never conducted.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
plan in 1975 to utilise the recovery barge Glomar Explorer to recover the remainder of the Soviet submarine K-129
Soviet submarine K-129 (Golf II)
K-129 was a Project 629A diesel-electric powered submarine of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, one of six Project 629 strategic ballistic missile submarines attached to the 15th Submarine Squadron based at Rybachiy Naval Base, Kamchatka, commanded by Rear Admiral Rudolf A...
left on the sea floor by the earlier Project Azorian. The operation was never conducted.