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Book SynopsisM. Todd Bennett explores the logistics, media fallout, and geopolitical significance of one of the most ambitious operations in intelligence history. The Glomar mission, he argues, played a pivotal but underappreciated role in helping the CIA ward off oversight amid a push for transparency and accountability.
Trade ReviewBennett explores timely questions about the balance between secrecy and transparency and the role of the press in both...[his]comprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read. * Library Journal, starred review *
This is intelligence history as it should be written: packed with new archival findings and thrillingly narrated yet also deeply engaged with the latest scholarship in the wider fields of U.S. history and America in the world. A must-read for academic historians and espionage buffs alike. -- Hugh Wilford, author of
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played AmericaBennett shows why the story of the Glomar Explorer is not only filled with exciting characters and twists, it’s also a key moment in the history of the U.S. government’s refusal to disclose information to the voters. -- Kathryn Olmsted, author of
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled HitlerNeither Confirm nor Deny is an extraordinary account of one of the most important moments in the history of the CIA, the Glomar Explorer Mission. Likely to become a classic in the field of the history of intelligence,
Neither Confirm nor Deny vividly underlines the continuing tensions that exist between democratic transparency and the American national security state. -- Thomas A. Schwartz, author of
Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political BiographyFrom the murky depths of the 1970s, this riveting book surfaces not only a Soviet sub and its CIA salvagers but also a new reckoning with an era known for investigative transparency. Glomar’s legacy instead was to anchor the media, politicians, and all Americans to a barnacled ship of state secrecy. -- Katherine A. S. Sibley, coeditor of
Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist PartyComprehensive research makes this book as engaging as any espionage novel. An essential read. [Starred Review] * Library Journal *
Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Old Lines
2. The Hughes Connection
3. The Rules of the Game
4. Inside Job
5. Fish or Cut Bait?
6. Colby’s Dike
7. Neither Confirm nor Deny
8. Shivering from Overexposure
9. Hold the Line
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
