They have omitted the best part of the Glomar Explorer story, the cherry on the cake (I am Russian, so please excuse me for inevitable bad grammar). The cover

They have omitted the best part of the Glomar Explorer story, the cherry on the cake (I am Russian, so please excuse me for inevitable bad grammar). The cover story wasn't just "deep ocean mining". They needed to be more specific to explain the unusual equipment. CIA has created an entire fake geological industry for this operation — manganese nodules mining (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese_nodule). Manganese nodules do exist for real, but they never have been easily recoverable enough for commercial exploitation. CIA had started the operation to convince the scientific community otherwise. They flooded the geological and mining industry periodicals with hundreds of fake peer-reviewed papers describing some details of nodule recovery process, to make it appear doable. First, it served as the explanation for Glomar Explorer activities; second, they created a distraction for Russians and other nations, who enthusiastically started they own nodule mining projects (all abandoned after the operation details leaked). Russians bought it fully. In our periodicals, we had many enthusiastic articles about the future of deep ocean mining and endless sources of rare metals. Then, it vanished abruptly. I can't even imagine the fury of Russian intelligence when they had learned the details. And who knows, what other peer reviewed scientific publications today are just a cover story for some big spy game?