Project Azorian; The CIA and the Raising of the K-129

In early August 1974, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the North Pacific Ocean, which was sponsored by Howard Hughes. This book is based on interviews with men who were on board the Glomar Explorer and the USS Halibut, with U.S. naval intelligence officers and with the Soviet submarine division commander. The untold story of the CIA's Project Azorian is finally revealed after decades of secrecy.

Norman Polmar is an internationally known analyst, consultant, and award-winning author specializing in naval, aviation, and intelligence issues. He has worked extensively in the submarine area for the U.S. Department of Defense and Navy, and consulted on this subject to U.S. and foreign commercial firms and government agencies, and to members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. He spent four years with the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project (DSSP) while an employee of Northrop Corp. He has served for almost eleven years on the Secretary of the Navy's Research Advisory Committee (NRAC). He has written fifty books, including eight editions of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. He is currently a columnist for Proceedings and Naval History magazines. He is a resident of Alexandria, Va.
Michael White has worked in film and television for more than thirty-five years. His career in special and visual effects began in 1976 at Pinewood Stuios in England, and 1990 he moved to Vienna, which he has used as a base to work around Europe as a director of more than fifty commercials and some twenty corporate films. In 2002, he turned to making full-length documentary,---"On a Wind and a Prayer." This award-winning film covered the remarkable story of the Japanese balloon bomb offensive against the North American continent during World War II.

Michael White's latest documentary---"Azorian: The Raising of the K-129"---provides the most accurate film account yet produced of the incredible covert operation and partial recovery of the Soviet submarine K-129 by the CIA.