Glomar

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Glomar may refer to:

• The former Global Marine Inc., a drilling contractor, which merged with Santa Fe International Corporation to form GlobalSantaFe Corporation
• Glomar Challenger, the drillship used for the Deep Sea Drilling Program.
• USNS Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193) - The Glomar Explorer was a large salvage vessel built by the CIA for Project Jennifer — an attempted salvaging of a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. The CIA had chosen to "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of the project, and this claim to secrecy based on nation security survived a United States Supreme Court challenge.
• The Glomar case refers to the above legal case.
• The term "Glomar response" has since been used in United States law to refer to a "neither confirm nor deny" response by agents of national security as valid, given that the circumstances truly require it, and do not conflict with Freedom of Information Act precedent.
• The name of a prepared food invented by Matthew Scott Timson Bellah comprised of bacon, butter and saltine crackers.

[edit] See also

• Deniability