
Neither Confirm Nor Deny
Radiolab
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Project Azorian - A History of the Project
In the late sixties, the us. S r were playing this high stakes chess game with their nuclear submarines cruising around international waters. There was a lot of harassment thay went on inching on each other's territories. In january 19 68, a us. Naval ship was captured after leaving japan. And everyone was worried that the soviets had our code books and there was an interest in getting even. Two months later, in march of 1968, a soviet sub called the k one 29 just vanished. We don't know exactly why it sunk. It just sank to the bottom of the ocean. The chief of naval operations really wanted to see if we couldn
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