When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it.
To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help of Howard Hughes, who provided the agency cover, the guise being that the deep ocean activity was part of his company’s mining exploration.
The six-year CIA project — called Project Azorian — is one of the episodes of the new Netflix series Spy Ops, which looks at some of the most notorious spy operations in history.
The agency is collaborating with the producer of the series, Big Media, often shedding new light on Cold War-era and more recent operations that involve Argo-like risks and secrecy, while certain details still remain classified.
Other episodes delve into the intrigue surrounding the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981, and another in 2001 to sneak a CIA team into...
To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help of Howard Hughes, who provided the agency cover, the guise being that the deep ocean activity was part of his company’s mining exploration.
The six-year CIA project — called Project Azorian — is one of the episodes of the new Netflix series Spy Ops, which looks at some of the most notorious spy operations in history.
The agency is collaborating with the producer of the series, Big Media, often shedding new light on Cold War-era and more recent operations that involve Argo-like risks and secrecy, while certain details still remain classified.
Other episodes delve into the intrigue surrounding the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981, and another in 2001 to sneak a CIA team into...
- 9/8/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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