Speaker
Series #5
“The Taking of K-129”
by Josh Dean
Wednesday,
September 19, 2018
7:00 p.m. in the
Barn
In early 1968,
a Soviet ballistic missile submarine went missing in a remote area of the
Pacific and despite a furious search, the Soviet Navy was unable to locate it.
The United States Navy, however, was able to locate the wreck and decided this
was an intelligence haul too great to pass up. The job of salvaging the sub was
given to the CIA’s burgeoning Directorate of Science and Technology and thus
began Project Azorian, a massive five year covert operation that produced one
of the greatest feats of engineering in history. Author Josh Dean will discuss
the operation, and the incredible cover story developed by the CIA to disguise
it.
Josh Dean is a New York based journalist whose work has
appeared in Popular Science, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, GQ, Outside, Fast Company,
ESPN the Magazine, and many others. He is a former deputy editor of Men's
Journal and was one of the founding editors of PLAY, the New York Times Sports
Magazine. He is the author of THE TAKING OF K-129, the incredible true story of
the largest and most audacious covert operation in US history, SHOW DOG: The Charmed
Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred, an extremely real and yet
still unbelievable trip inside the world of dog shows, and THE LIFE AND TIMES
OF THE STOPWATCH GANG, about Canada's infamous and prolific 1970s gang of bank
robbers.
This Speaker Series event is FREE to
the public.
Due to limited seating,
please call 301-373-2280 for
reservations.
Thanks to The Boeing
Company for supporting the Speaker Series at Sotterley for 11 years running.
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