• The Glomar Explorer is seen anchored in the U.S. Navy's National Defense Reserve Fleet in Suisan Bay, California, in this U.S. Navy handout file photo taken on May 15, 1977, and released to Reuters by the Archives Branch of The U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington on Thursday. The ship, built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub, is heading to the scrapyard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. Christened the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after billionaire Howard Hughes was brought in on the CIA's deception, the 619-foot vessel eventually became part of the fleet of ships used by Swiss company Transocean to drill for oil. | HANDOUT / U.S. NAVY ARCHIVES BRANCH, NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND, WASHINGTON / HANDOUT / REUTERS
    The Glomar Explorer is seen anchored in the U.S. Navy's National Defense Reserve Fleet in Suisan Bay, California, in this U.S. Navy handout file photo taken on May 15, 1977, and released to Reuters by the Archives Branch of The U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington on Thursday. The ship, built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub, is heading to the scrapyard, a victim of the slide in oil prices. Christened the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after billionaire Howard Hughes was brought in on the CIA's deception, the 619-foot vessel eventually became part of the fleet of ships used by Swiss company Transocean to drill for oil. | HANDOUT / U.S. NAVY ARCHIVES BRANCH, NAVAL HISTORY AND HERITAGE COMMAND, WASHINGTON / HANDOUT / REUTERS

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ZURICH – A ship built by the CIA for a secret Cold War mission in 1974 to raise a sunken Soviet sub is heading to the scrap yard, a victim of the slide in oil prices.

Christened the Hughes Glomar Explorer, after billionaire Howard Hughes was brought in on the CIA’s deception, the 619-foot vessel eventually became part of the fleet of ships used by Swiss company Transocean to drill for oil.

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