Table of Contents

List 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

About the Author

M. Todd Bennett is associate professor of history at East Carolina University. He is the author of One World, Big Screen: Hollywood, the Allies, and World War II (2012). Bennett was formerly a historian at the U.S. Department of State; there, he edited the Foreign Relations of the United States volume that includes declassified records documenting the Glomar incident.

Reviews

Bennett 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 America*

Bennett 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 Hitler*

Neither 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 Biography*

From 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 Party*

A noteworthy achievement and serves as a valuable contribution to the literature, placing the Glomar mission within its necessary context. It serves as an effective entry to the ongoing efforts to fill in the missing dimension of intelligence to diplomatic history.
*Diplomatic History*