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# Project Azorian: The CIA's Wildest Cold War Caper

In this episode, Josh and Chuck dive into one of the most audacious and bizarre covert operations ever attempted during the Cold War—Project Azorian. When a Soviet nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks 3 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean in 1968, the CIA hatches an almost impossible plan to secretly retrieve it without the Soviets finding out, involving specially designed ships, a retractable underwater claw, and an elaborate cover story involving billionaire Howard Hughes and deep-sea mining. What unfolds is a nail-biting tale of engineering ingenuity, Cold War espionage, and how one of America's most closely guarded secrets ended up splashed across newspaper headlines in the most unexpected way possible.