S1E2 - Project Azorian: The CIA's Billion-Dollar Secret Salvage from the Ocean Floor

What if the most incredible engineering feat of the Cold War wasn't a missile or a satellite, but a secret so vast it had to be hidden in plain sight on the ocean's surface? In 1974, the CIA attempted the impossible: to steal an entire submarine from the bottom of the Pacific. This episode dives into the true story of Project Azorian. After the Soviet sub K-129 sank with its nuclear missiles in 1968, the U.S. located the wreck three miles down. We explore the CIA's audacious solution: building a colossal, purpose-built salvage ship, the *Glomar Explorer*, disguised as a deep-sea...