The Glomar Explorer is part of the greatest deception ever perpetrated by the CIA, and it was built at the Sun Shipbuilding yard in Chester, reports Mike Rosenwald for the Washington Post’s Podcast, Retropod.
In 1968, a Soviet submarine called K129 sank in the Pacific. The sub was carrying three nuclear missiles and cryptography equipment.
The Russians searched for two months but couldn’t find the sub. The United States, using hydrophones, located K129 17,000 feet down on the bottom of the ocean, 1,500 miles northwest of Hawaii…