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Project Azorian (sometimes referred to by the mis-nomer Project Jennifer) was a covert United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation to raise the wreck of the Soviet Golf-class ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Conducted between 1968 and 1974, the effort aimed to recover cryptographic materials, nuclear missiles, and other intelligence from the submarine, which had sunk in March 1968 approximately 1,560 nautical miles (2,890 km) northwest of Hawai