American sailors conduct a burial at sea with full honors for six Soviet submariners recovered during the CIA’s top-secret Project Azorian in 1974. In 1968, Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank with all hands in nearly 16,000 feet of water in the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii. The Soviets decided the wreckage was unrecoverable, but the CIA was determined to try for themselves. The goal was to recover at least one intact Soviet R-21 nuclear missile and cryptographic equipment or docu