Cloaks and Daggers | Part 9

The Cold War: Prelude To The Present

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

With the mechanisms of apocalypse firmly in place, both sides accelerate their efforts to determine the actual capabilities of the other. No detail is too insignificant: attempts are made to recover Soviet test warheads from the bottom of the ocean. By the time USS Triton circumnavigates the globe underwater, the full potential of the nuclear submarine as the preeminent weapon of the Cold War becomes apparent. And so the ever-increasing pressure to discover how many warheads the other side has, and how they work, and most importantly, where they are, the United States and the Soviet Union diverge in regard to intelligence gathering. The massive US lead in technology leads to spy satellites, hypersonic reconnaissance planes and the most ambitious intelligence operation in human history. The Soviets, on the other hand, play to their strengths as well: the ability to turn individual human assets. One of these paths will lead to the biggest intel haul of the Cold War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On April 1, 1960, a 19-year-old Filipino fisherman named Rufino Bearing hastily paddled his
0:10.0	dugout canoe back to Punta Engano on Macton Island.
0:14.4	He leapt ashore terrified of what he'd seen, the tentacle of a black sea monster out
0:19.5	in the open ocean not 50 yards away from where he had dropped his line.
0:24.4	I was very frightened, said Rufino, to a skeptical audience, presumably not impressed
0:28.7	with this April Fool's Day story.
0:30.6	I tried to get away as fast as I could.
0:33.4	A needless to say, most of his fellow villagers thought he'd been seeing things, but Rufino
0:38.1	was telling the truth he had indeed been seeing things.
0:41.8	He was, in fact, the only person in the world who had sighted the sea monster, a sea
0:47.5	monster which had taken a photograph of the young fisherman in his canoe, his face lost
0:52.4	in the shadow of his wide brim hat, looking exactly the way you would expect a 19-year-old
0:57.6	in a canoe to look if he was just about to get the hell out of there just as fast as
1:02.1	he could.
1:03.6	Meanwhile, inside the sea monster, the man who snapped the photo later had this to say
1:08.0	about the strange encounter.
1:09.7	It's a ludicrous situation.
1:11.8	On one hand, an impassive agent, staring with curious concentration at an unusual object
1:16.8	in the water.
1:17.8	On the other, a US Navy officer equipped with all the technical devices money and science
1:23.0	can procure, looking back with equally studied concentration.
1:28.0	On one end of the periscope, an outrigger canoe propelled by the brawny arms of its
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