The CIA's $800 Million Plan to Steal a Sunken Soviet Submarine

In 1968, a Soviet nuclear submarine — K-129 — vanished without a trace in the Pacific Ocean. The Soviets searched for months and never found it. The Americans did. And then the CIA hatched one of the most audacious secret operations of the Cold War: to raise a 1,750-ton submarine from 16,000 feet below the surface — three miles down — in total secrecy, hidden behind an elaborate cover story involving billionaire Howard Hughes and a fake deep-sea mining ship.

This is the true story of Project Azorian: the impossible engineering, the $800 million gamble, the cover-up that held for decades, and what they actually pulled from the seafloor.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 The Vanishing
1:35 America's Secret
3:08 Raising the Impossible
4:46 The Glomar Explorer
6:06 What They Recovered
7:47 Credits

🎙️ An original documentary by Fathom Files — meticulously researched and based on declassified U.S. government records of Project Azorian (officially declassified in 2010). Visuals are original AI generated reconstructions, created for illustrative purposes.

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