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    CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

    CIA #Museum AotW: Flag that Flew Above the Glomar Explorer This flag would have witnessed the stand-off of 3 Soviet vessels encircling the Glomar Explorer as they tried to discern why the American ship was anchored in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. http://1.usa.gov/XPudp7 pic.twitter.com/zqaObhSUhm

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      2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        March 1968: Soviet sub K-129, armed with nuclear ballistic missiles, sinks. May 1968: US located sub about 1,500 miles NW of Hawaii. Recognizing the value of the intel on Soviet strategic capabilities that would be gained if the sub were recovered, CIA agreed to lead recovery.pic.twitter.com/W68l4f7AIh

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      3. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        CIA’s mission: recover the 1,750-ton, 132-foot-long wrecked sub from more than 3 miles below the ocean surface… in total secrecy. 1970: CIA engineers & contractors concluded the only solution was to use a large mechanical claw to grab the sub & lift it.

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      4. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        The cover story: Glomar Explorer, a commercial deep-sea mining vessel "built" & "owned" by billionaire Howard Hughes was conducting marine research at extreme ocean depths & mining manganese nodules.pic.twitter.com/lPLuSghtlM

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      5. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        Glomar would conduct entire recovery under water with specially built capture vehicle, Clementine, in complete secrecy. Clementine would be positioned to straddle the sub, & its powerful jaws would grab the sub’s hull.pic.twitter.com/lPgzJiyvry

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      6. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        Sailing from Long Beach, CA, the Glomar Explorer arrived over the recovery site on Independence Day, 4 July 1974 & conducted salvage operations for more than two months under total secrecy—despite much of the time being monitored by nearby Soviet ships curious about its mission.

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      7. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        July 31, 1974: Clementine touched down on the ocean floor, sending up a cloud of mud that obscured visibility for half an hour. Aug. 1, 1974: Clementine & a 132-foot sub hull section, weighing as much as a WWII-era destroyer, began a more than 3-mile ascent.pic.twitter.com/WBSGSzvOB8

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      8. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        During the lift, when the sub was a third of the way up, it broke apart, & a section plunged back to the ocean bottom. Much of what was retrieved is still classified; however 2 nuclear torpedoes were found in the recovered part of the Soviet sub.

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      9. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        Among the contents in the recovered section of K-129 were the bodies of six Soviet submariners. They were given formal military burial at sea & DCI Robert Gates presented a film of the burial ceremony to Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1992.https://youtu.be/aJAJUJ41PBI 

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      10. CIA‏Verified account @CIA Jul 3

        In the late 1990s, a US petroleum company restored Glomar & used it for actual deep-sea oil drilling and exploration. Project AZORIAN remains an engineering marvel, greatly advancing deep-ocean mining and heavy-lift technology. http://1.usa.gov/XPudp7 pic.twitter.com/ZLTOnSr1Sd

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      2. Felt‏ @MrFelt_ Jul 3
        Replying to @CIA

        🤔👍🤔

        2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      3. Sean Churchill‏ @Bad_joke_world Jul 3
        Replying to @MrFelt_ @CIA

        Did the CIA have any part in the naming of that vessel?

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      4. Felt‏ @MrFelt_ Jul 3
        Replying to @Bad_joke_world @CIA

        GLOMAR

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      2. Mother of Squirrels 🐿️ 🔥‏ @sewimperfect Jul 3
        Replying to @CIA

        I need someone to investigate why the @CIA knows how to thread tweets and @FBI doesn't😆 Seriously though, this is an amazing story😍pic.twitter.com/NBkPrjz8AN

        1 reply 1 retweet 28 likes
      3. yammerjaw  ❤️‏ @yammerjaw Jul 3
        Replying to @sewimperfect @CIA @FBI

        Do we really need to waste resources investigating the obvious? 😘

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      1. Free Palestine‏ @domainawareness Jul 3
        Replying to @CIA

        And let us not forget the first Tweet from the official CIA Twitter account was a play on the "Glomar response" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_response …pic.twitter.com/vqNiMNju3M

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      1. April Thomas‏ @aprilsparkles1 Jul 3
        Replying to @CIA

        Very cool CIA — nowadays our leadership shares classified secrets with the Russians and Congress acts as the State Department.

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      2. Sheila Puryear‏ @smp0312 Jul 3
        Replying to @CIA

        @Glomar⬆️

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      3. Sheila Puryear‏ @smp0312 Jul 3
        Replying to @smp0312 @CIA @GLOMAR

        @DonTMogilevich

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      2. Clovis‏ @clovis69 Jul 3
        Replying to @CIA

        If you’d let the Navy do the recovery it would have saved hundreds of millions and recovered more intel materials

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      3. Red Hawk  🌐‏ @TheRHawk Jul 3
        Replying to @clovis69 @CIA

        And caused a possible world war. Win win for everyone

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