During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw
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#2Ah! I recall listening to this on a stuff you should know podcast a while ago. Fun listen https://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/project-azorian-...
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#3If you found this interesting, I can't recommend Blind Man's Bluff[0] enough.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/...
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#4One of my favorite episodes of Radio Lab talks about this, and opens up so many interesting subjects—truth, silence, grief, secrets, law.
Highly recommend if you’ve never heard before: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/confirm-nor-deny
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#5There is a very interesting documentary on this expedition. One of the guys mentioned that when the grabber arm broke, they could see on their monitors an ICBM slipping through one of the tubes, heading down the bottom. Everyone in the room braced for the impact with the ocean floor...
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#6"That May, Soviet operatives increased the amount of microwave radiation trained on the American embassy in Moscow."
This was the 1970's. Today people eschew the idea of similar treatment of Western embassies in Cuba.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/world/americas/cuba-unite...
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#7two separate Soviet ships (likely loaded with intelligence operatives) closely monitored the supposed mining vessel as it worked to retrieve the submarine.
It sounds like they knew exactly what was going on.
Tangent: My grandfather was part of a U.S. Navy operation during WWII that was responsible for verifying enemy submarine sinkings ... basically, sending someone down to pick up an artifact that would prove the sunken submarine was at a certain location. I don't know how they did it in the deeper parts of the ocean, though.
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#8Possibly the coolest and most spooky Cold War artifact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJAJUJ41PBI
It's the video on board the Glomar Explorer of a burial at sea ceremony of Soviet sailors found in the half of the submarine they managed to bring to the surface. Supposedly this was Top Secret until a copy was given to Yeltsin in 1991 or so.
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#9Possibly the coolest and most spooky Cold War artifact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJAJUJ41PBI It's the video on board the Glomar Explorer of a burial at sea ceremony of Soviet sailors found in the half of the submarine they managed to bring to the surface. Supposedly this was Top Secret until a copy was given to Yeltsin in 1991 or so.
I don't find it very spooky. Moving though, considering it's a solemn burial of the bodies of enemy soldiers. And if really it was top-secret, it's not even propaganda. Better times than ours.
And how cool is the Soviet anthem?
Re: During Cold War, CIA Plucked Soviet Submarine from Ocean Floor Using Giant Claw
#10Possibly the coolest and most spooky Cold War artifact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJAJUJ41PBI It's the video on board the Glomar Explorer of a burial at sea ceremony of Soviet sailors found in the half of the submarine they managed to bring to the surface. Supposedly this was Top Secret until a copy was given to Yeltsin in 1991 or so.
I don't find it very spooky. Moving though, considering it's a solemn burial of the bodies of enemy soldiers. And if really it was top-secret, it's not even propaganda. Better times than ours. And how cool is the Soviet anthem?
It's a kick ass anthem but I like the Pet Shop Boys Go West better, especially the video.