In 1968, the CIA conducted Operation Glomar Explorer to retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the Pacific Ocean using a 600-foot ship disguised as a manganese mining vessel, with the cover story that Howard Hughes was mining nodules on the ocean floor.
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The CIA stole a Soviet nuclear sub. With a fake mining ship.Added:
April 1968 A Soviet submarine carrying three nuclear missiles sinks in the Pacific.
American sonar caught the death rattle.
The Soviets never found the wreck.
The CIA built a 600-foot ship designed to lift the sub off the seafloor.
Cover story, Howard Hughes was mining manganese nodules. The world believed it. 3 miles down, a giant claw closed around the wreck and started lifting.
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