Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NICK HAD just landed a clerkship at a brand new prefab luxuriana by the sea. I met him as he got off work one night, at the twelfth floor lounge of his motel overlooking the ocean and the honkytonk Boardwalk...
...advancing long-term Soviet interests; 2) prudence in avoiding any direct confrontation with the U.S.; and 3) providing massive arms aid to favored Arab nations. With this slogging, farsighted policy, the Soviets clearly hope to establish a swath of influence from Syria to Somalia extending far into the Indian Ocean. If and when the Geneva talks resume, the Kremlin will be able to exert influence on an impressive ar ray of actual and potential Middle East allies. Items...
...accident. Some time in 1968, somewhere in the northwest Pacific, the Soviet submarine surfaced to recharge its batteries. There was an explosion, perhaps caused by a spark that ignited trapped gases in the hull Before a single member of the crew could escape, the craft plummeted to the ocean floor about three miles below. But not to an unknown grave. U.S. Navy devices picked up the stricken submarine's last throes and were able to place the wreckage within a ten-mile-square area. The Soviet navy was not so fortunate. A Soviet task force searched for traces...
...phone calls, visits and through his emissaries, Colby made contact with a number of news organizations. His purpose: to persuade them, on national security grounds, not to print a story that they all knew about-the attempt by the CIA to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean bottom...
...story Colby wanted to contain was a strange tale of CIA derring-do: the attempted raising of a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. But when Jack Anderson broke the news on a radio show last week and forced his cautions colleagues into print with their versions, the strangest tale was not the underwater espionage ballet, but the story of how the CIA convinced 11 respected news organizations to withhold, rather than distribute, the news...