Project Azorian: The CIA's Super 70s Mission To Steal A Sunken Soviet Sub

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In 1974 the CIA undertook one of its most brazen operations – secretly raising a sunken Soviet submarine lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean right under the noses of the Russian Navy. With the help of billionaire recluse Howard Hughes, obviously.

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