In 1968, Project Azorian was launched to retrieve the submarine K-129 using a special ship called the Hughes Glomar Explorer. It looked perfectly normal from the outside, but the hull opened to allow ...

There's a revolving door of talent between the country's premiere intelligence agency and its entertainment industry, with ...

The account in the Los Angeles Times on Friday said Hughes contacted the Central Intelligence Agency so his supersecret mining ship, the Glomar Explorer, could raise, or attempt to raise, the ...

After the Glomar Explorer Program Don worked in the Agency’s Directorate of Science and Technology, first on the Director’s staff then in three offices involved in signals intelligence (SIGINT ...

Although the Glomar exemption is entrenched, the archivist’s office isn’t giving up: “The Hughes Glomar Explorer was never used again for covert operations.

He was on the Glomar Explorer that went out to pick up Manganese Nodules from the ocean floor. His last program was the Hubble Space Telescope and he watched it launched in Florida.

The agency decided it would refuse to confirm or deny whether records about the Glomar Explorer’s mission existed, despite the mounting public evidence that they did. And so the “Glomar response” was ...

The ship was named the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after Hughes. "Hughes was chosen for a number of reasons, but mainly because he was secretive. His firm was privately owned.

The ship was named the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after Hughes. "Hughes was chosen for a number of reasons, but mainly because he was secretive. His firm was privately owned.