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We FOIA’d every federal agency for their ‘Glomar’ responses. Here’s what we learned.

This March 19, 1975, file photo shows the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a 618-foot-long salvage ship built by the eccentric industrialist Howard Hughes, at the Long Beach harbor dock in Los Angeles, Calif.
Popular Mechanics

Inside the CIA’s Most Daring Underwater Heist: Stealing a Soviet Nuclear Sub From the Ocean Floor

The 619-foot-long Hughes Glomar Explorer attracted plenty of attention in 1974. The American deep-sea mining vessel, said to be the brainchild of eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, was one of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

During the Cold War, the CIA Secretly Plucked a Soviet Submarine From the Ocean Floor Using a Giant Claw

In a corner exhibit of the recently reopened International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a submarine control panel, a swoopy-banged wig, detailed whiteprints and a chunk of manganese are on display.