What Really Happened to the Missing Soviet Sub?

In 1968, a Soviet submarine vanished beneath the Pacific Ocean without a trace. No distress call. No wreckage. Just silence.
But what happened next was one of the most daring and secretive intelligence operations in Cold War history.
Welcome to the unbelievable story of Project Azorian—the CIA’s covert mission to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from over 16,000 feet below the ocean surface. Cloaked in secrecy, backed by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and executed using a massive ship disguised as a mining vessel, this operation reads like a spy thriller—because it was.
In this video, we dive deep into:
The mysterious disappearance of Soviet sub K-129

How the U.S. Navy secretly located the wreck

The creation of the Glomar Explorer, a $800 million engineering marvel

The partial recovery and burial at sea of Soviet sailors

The legendary “Glomar Response” that kept it all under wraps

Was it worth the risk? What did they recover? And what does Project Azorian tell us about the lengths nations will go to during the Cold War?
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