My son bought me a books on disc of this story.
The US government took 20,000 pictures of the sub prior to having Howard Hughs build the Glomar Explorer.
It was a very interesting book, IIRC it was either 7 or 9 discs long.
This is the book I was talking about:
“Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.”
How the heck did you find a 12 year old post?