MANHATTAN - The New York City Police Department's latest tool for frustrating information requests gets its name from a CIA salvage ship used to rescue a Soviet submarine during the Cold War. The ...

FILE - 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 ...

The Glomar doctrine is named for the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a massive salvage ship built by Howard Hughes, the eccentric industrialist who died in 1976.

“The Sun 800 was built specifically to help us on the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer," said Gene Schorsch, who was then chief of hull design for Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.

WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - It was huge, expensive and top secret. In the early 1970s the CIA built a gigantic ship called the Hughes Glomar Explorer to lift a sunken Soviet submarine from ...

“The Sun 800 was built specifically to help us on the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer," said Gene Schorsch, who was then chief of hull design for Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.

“The Sun 800 was built specifically to help us on the construction of the Hughes Glomar Explorer," said Gene Schorsch, who was then chief of hull design for Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.