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03587aam a2200517 i 4500 001 CB7C3CAEA9D911ED825A947343ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230211010040 008 220511s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022012916 020 $a 0231193475 020 $a 9780231193474 020 $a 0231193467 020 $a 9780231193467 035 $a (OCoLC)1332888623 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a JK468.I6 $b B46 2023 082 00 $a 327.1273009 $2 23/eng/20220623 100 1 $a Bennett, M. Todd, $e author. 245 10 $a Neither confirm nor deny : $b how the Glomar mission shielded the CIA from transparency / $c Todd Bennett. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a viii, 374 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Global America 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The old lines -- The Hughes connection -- The rules of the game -- Inside job -- Fish or cut bait? -- Colby's dike -- Neither confirm nor deny -- Shivering from overexposure -- Hold the line. 520 $a "In 1974, a mining vessel, the Hughes Glomar Explorer (ostensibly owned by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes), descended to the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Its purpose was not, as was publicly recorded, to tap into natural manganese deposits, but rather to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine that had mysteriously disappeared six years earlier. The secrets and intelligence onboard that submarine could, the CIA hoped, win them the underwater Cold War. In Neither Confirm Nor Deny, historian Todd Bennett recounts the logistics, drama, and media fallout of the most daring and expensive Cold War intelligence operation that the CIA carried out. When the Glomar's claw accidentally broke the submarine in half, and when burglars stole documents from the Hughes mansion in Los Angeles and ransomed them to the CIA for $1 million dollars, CIA director William Colby embarked on a media campaign to silence or counter investigative reports that threatened to expose the $350 million boondoggle. What followed would change the relationship between the Fourth Estate and the U.S. intelligence community and disrupt the balance of security and transparency for decades to come, coining in the process what would become known as the Glomar response: "The CIA can neither confirm nor deny....""-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency $x History $y 20th century. 610 20 $a Glomar Explorer (Ship) 650 0 $a Espionage, American $z Soviet Union $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Intelligence service $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Cold War. 610 27 $a Glomar Explorer (Ship) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00523227 610 17 $a United States. $b Central Intelligence Agency. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00536259 650 7 $a Espionage, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00915388 650 7 $a Intelligence service. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975848 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bennett, M. Todd. $t Neither confirm nor deny $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] $z 9780231550321 $w (DLC) 2022012917 941 $a 1 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305022034.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CB7C3CAEA9D911ED825A947343ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IW3Initiate Another SILO Locator Search