In 1974, the CIA's ship, Glomar Explorer, attempted to raise the wreck of the Soviet submarine K-129.

Some say something went wrong. Some say the CIA ended up getting much more of the submarine

and its secrets than is generally known.

But all these questions aside, there was really only one real mystery surrounding the Cold War

incident called Project Azoria.

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The Bell That Tolls for the K-129.

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the two superpowers formed the United States-Russia Joint Commission on P.O.W.M.I.A. affairs to cooperatively determine the fates of personnel missing from both sides, from World War II through the Cold War.

The co-chairman of the American delegation was Mac Toon, formerly an ambassador to the Soviet Union, and he was in Moscow on

August 30, 1993. It was a minor meeting. There was not even any press coverage. We don't even

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