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During this period, Hughes was the largest private employer in Nevada and provided the cover for the CIA'S Glomar Explorer operation. The executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the old man was alert and bossing the company from behind the scenes. Actually, he was leading a totally disoriented life. Hughes' daily log, which is expected to be introduced as evidence in pending court actions, recounts that he spent most of his waking hours watching thriller movies, going...
...weeks ago TIME printed an article about Glomar based partly on a talk with a former Glomar crew member named Joe Rodriguez (TIME, Dec. 6). As the first of Glomar's some 200 crewmen to speak, Rodriguez provided previously unknown touches about shipboard life (filet mignon was standard fare; Deep Throat was the favorite flick). Rodriguez's most significant hint, however, was that Glomar retrieved the entire Soviet sub. TIME checked out Rodriguez's suggestion with a number of Pentagon experts, who appeared to confirm it. They conceded that significant. and so far undisclosed portions...
Last week, after TIME raised additional questions about his involvement with Glomar, Rodriguez, now a Sacramento-area hairdresser, admitted that he had not been on the ship during the recovery; he had taken part only in training cruises and had left before the key voyage. ("I'm sorry. I feel bad. I will not sleep well tonight." he said...
...articles by Reporter Seymour Hersh that directly contradicted the TIME accounts. Hersh named as chief sources two brothers: Wayne Collier, 33, who worked as CIA recruiter for the crew, and his younger brother Bill, hired by Wayne as a cutting-torch handler. Though neither man was aboard the Glomar at the time of the sub lifting, Bill was on the ship when the retrieved portions were being dissected. In a sense, Hersh's account reinforced the original CIA thesis: only the sub's forward third was recovered. But he added that four torpedoes were found as well...
...bulk of the weapons system installed in the vessel, which carried three SSN5 surface-to-surface nuclear missiles. This is according to the Pentagon sources, who stick by their accounts of a far fuller retrieval than previously conceded by the CIA. Thus, after another twist of the Glomar mystery, the successes-or failures-of the mission remain confused...