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Originally Posted by freebeard
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So the backstory to how Nixon and Kissinger got in so well with the Chinese is interesting. I read a book called 'Red Star Rogue' by Kenneth Sewell, that poses an interesting theory. A lot is out there about Project Azorian, and the Soviet sub K-129. What isn't as well known is where exactly that sub sank, and how exactly it sank, and especially the reason the sub was where it was. See the Soviets were actually having a pretty good border conflict with China in the mid 60s. Sewell has evidence that shows the K-129 was taken over by a Soviet special ops group and had a mission to disguise the K-129 as a Chinese Golf submarine and actually launch a 3 megaton ICBM on Hawaii. Causing the US to enter into a war with China. What's 1/2 million people vaporized in the name of the Brezhnev doctrine. So the k-129 was a Golf 2 and had the ability to, and always did operate in a specific zone 500-700 miles from Hawaii. But the Chinese Golf 1 subs only had a ballistic missile range of 200 miles. So the k-129 was actually found in waters less than 200 miles from Oahu. There was also evidence it exploded on the surface, something a Golf 1 had to do to launch. The the damage that caused the sinking pointed to a internal explosion of an ICBMs rocket fuel. Sewell thinks either they messed up the failsafe codes, and that's what the failsafe does, is detonate the fuel, or the real soviet captain still on board was able to activate the failsafe to save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives at the sacrifice of himself and his crew. Now he also believes that the majority of the sub including the bodies of all the crew were recovered by Project Azorian, and that with the identity of the "extra" crew known, put together with the other clues, made it possible for Kissinger to present to Mao just how much Russia was their enemy too.
Keeping on topic the K-129 was a battery electric vehicle just with a big diesel generator onboard to recharge.