COLD WAR SPY SHIP GETS NEW CALLING AS OIL RIG.Byline: James O. Clifford Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Life has come full circle for the Glomar Explorer, a spy ship A spy ship is a dedicated ship intended to gather intelligence, usually by means of sophisticated electronic eavesdropping gear. In a wider sense, any ship intended to clandestinely gather information could be considered a spy ship. steeped in secrecy and credited by legend with pulling a Soviet submarine from the depths of the Pacific. The 619-foot-long vessel was berthed Wednesday at a salvage yard where some heavy gear will be removed before it is converted to an oil rig. The ship made its first voyage in 16 years Tuesday when it left the mothball moth·ball n. 1. A marble-sized ball, originally of camphor but now of naphthalene, stored with clothes to repel moths. 2. mothballs a. fleet in Suisun Bay Suisun Bay (pronounced "suh-soon") is a shallow tidal estuary located in central California, USA. It lies at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, thus forming the entrance to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, an inverted river delta. , about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco. The ship had become a fixture easily spotted by motorists on a nearby bridge. ``Our main job will be to dismantle the upper lift machinery,'' said Doug Watson, president of Astoria Metal Corp. Eventually, the cloak-and-dagger ship will become an oil drilling rig operated by Global Marine Inc. of Houston. That job description is pretty close to the cover story circulated in the 1970s to conceal the vessel's real role for the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). in the Cold War. At that time, the Glomar Explorer was billed as a pet project of billionaire Howard Hughes who wanted to team it with an underwater barge to haul precious metals Precious Metals Valuable metals such as gold, iridium, palladium, platinum, and silver. Notes: Investing in precious metals can be done either by purchasing the physical asset, or by purchasing futures contracts for the particular metal. from the ocean depths. The cover was blown, however, with reports that its real mission in 1974 was to recover an entire Golf-2 class Soviet submarine that sank in 1968 three miles down in the Pacific Ocean and about 750 miles northwest of Hawaii. What it really retrieved is unclear. According to a 1993 New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times story, two Soviet nuclear warheads were recovered from a bow section but a giant claw in the barge failed and lost the rest. Other reports indicated the entire ship was salvaged with nuclear-tipped missiles and Soviet code books among the recovered items. The CIA has acknowledged recovering six of the 86 crewmen and burying them with full military honors. There were also reports that the Navy had specially equipped submarines that explored the wreckage six years before the Glomar Explorer and recovered three nuclear warheads. |
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