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	USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glomar Explorer mothballed in Suisun Bay, CA - June 1993.
		USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) is a large ship currently being used as a deep-sea drilling platform.
		It is rumored that the true aim of the mission is to repeat the feat of the Glomar Explorer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hughes_Glomar_Explorer (544 words)

	Scientific American Frontiers . Mysteries of the Deep . Raising Sunken Ships \| PBS
		A few years later the wealthy eccentric Howard Hughes constructed the Glomar Explorer, an enormous barge built for the ostensible purpose of mining manganese nodules from the ocean floor.
		In reality, the Glomar Explorer was built as part of an audacious CIA effort to retrieve the Golf.
		Tense moments passed onboard the Glomar Explorer, as the crew steeled themselves for the nuclear explosion that many expected when the lost warhead smashed into the ocean floor.
	www.pbs.org /saf/1305/features/ship2.htm (493 words)

	USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The vessel originated in a secret plan by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to recover a sunken Soviet submarine, the K-129, as part of Project Jennifer.
		For many years, the Explorer sat in Suisun Bay, until it was retrofitted for drilling operations in the late 1990s.
		The United States government has largely not acknowledged the operation, although a video containing memorial services for the Soviet seamen who had been pulled to the surface in a segment of the submarine was sent to Russia in the early 1990s.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Hughes_Glomar_Explorer (323 words)

	Project Jennifer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Billionaire businessman Howard Hughes—whose companies were already contractors of numerous US military weapons and aircraft—was secretly contracted by the CIA to build a massive ship that would be used to extract the sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean floor.
		To hide the true mission of the ship, a cover story was concocted, asserting that the Hughes Glomar Explorer was being constructed for the Summa Corporation to mine for underwater manganese nodules.
		The Hughes Glomar Explorer employed a large mechanical claw that was designed to extend down to the ocean floor and lift the submerged submarine up through 16,500 feet of water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Jennifer (799 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - "Arctic Drilling and the CIA /Wackenhut /Oil"
		The mission of Glomar Explorer was to raise a Soviet nulear submarine that had sunk in the Pacific, resting on the ocean floor nearly 17,000 ft. (5,200 m) down.
		Global Marine supervised construction of the Glomar Explorer, at a cost in excess of $200 million dollars, and operated it from 1973 to 1975 under contract to the US government.
		Glomar Explorer went to sea on June 20, 1974, found the sub, and began to bring a portion of it to the surface.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID12/908.html (487 words)

	Jennifer-Projekt - Wikipedia
		Für die Bergung ließ die CIA den Hughes Glomar Explorer und eine Schwimmplattform entwickeln, auf der die geborgenen U-Boot-Teile untersucht und versteckt werden sollten.
		Juli 1974 begann der Hughes Glomar Explorer mit der Bergeoperation.
		Der Hughes "Glomar Explorer" ist, nachdem er fast 20 Jahre vor sich hin rostete, zum Bohrschiff umgebaut worden und führt Testbohrungen für Ölquellen im Golf von Mexiko für Howard Hughes' zahlreiche Firmen durch.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jennifer-Projekt (481 words)

	The Hughes Glomar Explorer's Mission
		Hughes Glomar Explorer was equipped with a massive hoisting mechanism amidships and a "moon pool", a large internal underwater hangar to provide access to the ocean.
		After Hughes Glomar Explorer and HMB-1 left port, the barge submerged, manuvered under Glomar Explorer, and the claw was hoisted into the moon pool.
		After the recovery Hughes Glomar Explorer was transferred to the Navy on 3 Sept 1976 and designated AG 193.
	w3.the-kgb.com /dante/military/mission.html (718 words)

	Project Jennifer / Hughes Glomar Explorer
		The Hughes Glomar Explorer [HGE] was built in 1973 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. for an intricate CIA undertaking.
		Glomar Explorer was equipped to drill in waters of 7500 feet and with some modification up to 11,500 feet, which is 2,000 feet more than any existing rig.
		The CIA claimed that any records that might exist which may reveal any CIA connection with or interest in the activities of the Glomar Explorer, or any evidence that might reveal the existence of records of this type would be classified, and therefore, exempt from disclosure under exemption 1 of the FOIA.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/systems/jennifer.htm (754 words)

	Glomar Explorer
		Cascade General completed the conversion of the Glomar Explorer, a 619-foot (188 m) vessel, into a deepwater oil drilling ship.
		This necessitated additional thrusting capability in the form of four new 3,000 HP azimuthing units operating in 50- x 12.5-foot (15.2 x 3.8 m) vertical tubes, which were installed to a tolerance of 1/4" (6 mm) over the 52-foot (15.8 m) length.
		After sea trials and load testing of the engine, the Glomar Explorer was delivered under its own power to the Gulf Coast via Cape Horn for final outfitting.
	www.casgen.com /services/projects/glomar_explorer.htm (590 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Hughes Glomar Explorer
		When I lived in California, a neighbor was recruited as her captain on Project Jennifer-of course, he had no dealing with the operation itself and he was restricted where on the ship as to where he was allowed to go.
		Glomar Explorer is now doing what her original disguise was supposed to portend.
		Her sliding doors under the "moon pool" are now sealed, and the lifting capability is no longer possible.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6937/69112.html?1103852699 (1045 words)

	Bio, Spencer, Delmar A.
		The "Glomar Java Sea" is a sister ship of the "Glomar Explorer," which, under the guise of being utilized by the late Howard Hughes in a deep sea mining operation in the Paficic, was really being used by the CIA and Navy in a $350 million project to retrieve a sunken Soviet Golf-class submarine.
		The Glomar Java Sea, with its crew of 81, began drilling operations on January 9, 1983 and was the first American wildcat operaton off the Chinese coast.
		She reported that the crack in the hull of the ship at one point was a hole 48 inches across, which was punctured inward, "as though the rig had been hit by something that exploded." This fueled additional speculation that the vessel had, in fact, been attacked rather that simply mortally damaged by the typhoon.
	www.pownetwork.org /bios/s/sg05.htm (1847 words)

	Suisun Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		These were mostly removed for sale as scrap metal during the 1990s (being towed to Japan and mostly returned as automobiles).
		This location also held at anchor the famous Glomar Explorer after its once secret but now famous attempt to recover a lost, sunk Soviet submarine.
		The Glomar Explorer has now been activated for other duties fitting its original "cover", which was deep ocean seabead mineral exploration and recovery.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Suisun_Bay.html (412 words)

	ELC - Ask an Expert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The Glomar Challenger research vessel was built by Howard Hughes's Global Marine, Inc. It was evidence collected by scientists on the Challenger that confirmed the theory of plate tectonics.
		Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer, sister ship to the Glomar Challenger, was involved in one of the most interesting episodes of the Cold War -- atop secret attempt to raise a downed Soviet nuclear submarine from the seabed off the coast of Hawaii.
		The Glomar Explorer has been brought out of mothballs and is drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /asktheexpert.php/17.html (1587 words)

	Soviet submarine K-129 (Golf II) - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Hughes Glomar Explorer was built solely for that purpose, and Operation Jennifer began.
		Glomar Explorer was able to lift the wreck of К-129, but as it was raised the missiles fell out, and the hull broke into three parts, the bow and stern falling back to the ocean floor.
		The United States announced that in the section they raised were the bodies of six men.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/K-129_%28Golf_II%29 (538 words)

	Bio, Pierce, John D.
		The U.S. VETERAN has also obtained documents from the "Glomar Java Sea," removed by a crewman before the disaster, which indicate that the vessel was being shadowed by armed Vietnamese naval craft and that there were submarine mines beneath the "Glomar Java Sea," placed there and retrievable by its crew.
		It is known that the Vietnamese had shown an interest in the "Glomar Java Sea." A member of the ship's crew, who quit his job and left the vessel before it went down and thus avoided the fate of the others, obtained a warning message sent to the ship on April 19, 1983.
		One of the survivors was identified by a Vietnamese refugee in the Philippines as crewman John Pierce.
	www.pownetwork.org /bios/p/pg01.htm (4183 words)

	Workers convert spy ship
		The Glomar Explorer landed at the Port of Portland on Swan Island Feb. 14 to be outfitted with 4.5 million pounds of steel to fill the "moon pool," an open area occupying the central third of the hull.
		The Glomar conversion is the largest, most complex project in the history of the yard," said Andrew Rowe, executive vice president of Cascade General.
		The Glomar Explorer was built in 1973 for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Howard Hughes' Global Marine Co. The CIA reportedly used it to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the ocean floor 700 miles northwest of Hawaii.
	nwlaborpress.org /1997/conversion.html (657 words)

	HUGHES GLOMAR EXPLORER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		Die Hughes Glomar Explorer ist ein für das Jennifer-Projekt gebautes Bergungsschiff.
		Im Juli 1974, mehr als sechs Jahre nach dem Unglück, erreicht die "Glomar Explorer" ihre Position über der "K-129".
		Niemand soll nachher sagen, die Toten seien skrupellos über Bord geworfen worden.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/H/Hughes_Glomar_Explorer (304 words)

	OilOnline - The Original Online Source for the Oil Industry
		The drillship Glomar Explorer, according to Houston-based operator Global Marine’s rig count, is currently at work on Green Canyon block 743 in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling in some 7800ft of water for BP.
		As late as 1981, a DC Circuit Court ruled that the FOIA ‘did not require the CIA to disclose documents relating to its efforts to suppress news reports on the Glomar Explorer project’, stating that ‘the press reports were generally true, and that they reflected a CIA fallback story for the Glomar project’.
		As for the Glomar Explorer, it continues to drill to heroic depths in the US Gulf and should be ready for new — industrial — duties after it finishes work for BP, sometime around October 2003.
	www.oilonline.com /news/features/oe/20011101.and_anot.7847.asp (812 words)

	Ship with CIA past to get civilian job
		Global Marine supervised construction of the Glomar Explorer and operated it under contract to the U.S. government from 1973 to 1975.
		The New York Times said in 1976 the Glomar Explorer had recovered two nuclear torpedoes from the Soviet sub, a report a group of Russian scientists appeared to confirm a few years ago.
		The Glomar Explorer's heavy lift equipment, however, will be removed and turned over to the U.S. government, Herasimchuk said.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/96/08/02/globalmarine.html (475 words)

	Project Jennifer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The Explorer's operations wereexplained as a mining expedition for undersea manganese nodules financed by Howard Hughes.
		In fact, Jennifer was one of the most complex and secretive known intelligence operations of the Cold War.
		After the Soviets were unable to locate their sunken boat, but Halibut (SSN-587), modified to usespecialized search equipment, succeeded in locating it, HenryKissinger, then National Security Advisor,approved the plan to raise the wreckage.
	www.therfcc.org /project-jennifer-162946.html (223 words)

	CIA resists request for abuse data
		In seeking to keep its role in the detainee-abuse scandal from public view, the CIA has invoked the so-called "Glomar response," named for the Glomar Explorer, the deep-sea mining ship built by a Hughes-owned company for the CIA.
		Lewis said the ACLU is certain to challenge the CIA's use of the Glomar case to shield the alleged documents.
		The memos "look like particularly inappropriate uses of the Glomar response because they are basically legal analyses of laws against torture and the use of certain harsher interrogation techniques, which on its face does not look like it would compromise national security," Lewis said.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/cia_resists_request_abuse_data.htm (828 words)

	Project Jennifer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The Glomar Explorer would not lift the submarine on her own, however.
		The claw was intended to grab the wreck, and then a hoist in the Glomar Explorer would raise both barge and submarine up into a moonpool inside the ship.
		Slowly the submarine was raised from the seabed, and when the Glomar Explorer was carrying the entire weight of the submarine, some 3000 tons, she was lying 7 feet lower in the water.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /aj.cashmore/.features/articles/jennifer-text.html (610 words)

	Encyclopedia: Project Jennifer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		It was one of the most complex and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War.
		Polymetallic nodules, also called manganese nodules, are rock concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a core.
		This type of evasive reply has since come to be known as the "Glomar response" or "Glomarization." June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Project-Jennifer (1458 words)

	(GC9812) The Jennifer Project by Team_J (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		The secret mission of the (Hughes) Glomar Explorer was to raise a Soviet nuclear submarine that had sunk in the Pacific, resting on the ocean floor nearly 17,000 feet below.
		Glomar Explorer went to sea on June 20, 1974, under the cover of a deep-sea mining operation, found the sub, and began to bring a portion of it to the surface.
		An accident during the lifting operation caused the fragile hull to break apart, resulting in the loss of a critical portion of the submarine, its nuclear missles and crypto codes.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=38930 (459 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Global Marine's giant Glomar Explorer soon to start work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		But it would have cost at least $ 300 mm and taken at least a year longer to build a drillship like the Glomar Explorer instead of converting the 26-year-old vessel for its new role as a deep-water rig.
		But the Glomar Explorer's main mission for the U.S. Navy was its recovery of wreckage from a Soviet nuclear submarine that sank in the deep waters of the Pacific in 1974.
		The Glomar Explorer is the fourth drillship conversion that Atlantic Marine has done in the past 24 months.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnn81250.htm (819 words)

	Amelia Earhart - Perspective to a Cover-up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-21)
		If you look into the history of the Glomar Explorer you will find that it was a ship built for the CIA by the Summa Corporation to recover a sunken Russian submarine.
		In 1974 the Glomar Explorer operated under the cloak of a deep sea mining vessel searching for minerals west of Hawaii when in fact it was trying to recover the sunken Russian submarine.
		The only information available today as to what the Glomar Explorer was up to in 1979 is that it had been leased from the Navy by Global Marine Development Inc. for deep sea mining of manganese nodules 1500 miles south of Hawaii.
	www.e-southerndata.com /earhart (1938 words)

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