Project Azorian: Neither Confirm Nor Deny #Shorts

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Pier E, Long Beach. A ship sat here for 3 years that no journalist could board.

[00:00:05]Howard Hughes said it mined manganese.

[00:00:07]Not 1 oz was ever recovered. Beneath the hull hid a claw 60 ft wide. The CIA built this vessel to reach 3 mi under the Pacific [music] and retrieve a Soviet submarine that officially didn't exist. K-129 sank in 1968 [music] carrying nuclear warheads and Soviet code machines. Moscow never acknowledged the loss. That silence gave Washington an opening no intelligence agency had ever had. The claw locked onto the hull at 16,000 [music] ft. Halfway to the surface, the submarine fractured. The official story is only a small section [music] survived. That account was contested for decades. When journalists broke the story in [music] 1975, the CIA used a phrase that had never existed before. [music] We can neither confirm nor deny. That line, the Glomar response, is now legal language in [music] 40 countries. One failed retrieval on the ocean floor changed how governments keep secrets.