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

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 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. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:30.8	Ahoi everyone.
0:32.4	For this week's select, I've chosen our episode on Project Azorian, one of the coolest
0:38.8	most bonkers Cold War capers the CIA ever attempted.
0:43.3	And I don't have to tell you, the CIA did some bonkers stuff during the Cold War.
0:47.8	So sit back, pull up your favorite volume on Naval History and use it to clench onto
0:52.6	while you're driven to thrills by this episode of Stuff You Should Know.
0:59.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:09.8	Hey, and welcome to The Podcast.
1:11.5	I'm Josh Clark.
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1:18.4	Who's invisible?
1:22.7	Jerry's past.
1:23.7	Yeah.
1:24.7	Actually the Ghost of Jerry's present.
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