Project Azorian: The CIA's Secret Mission to Steal a Soviet Sub

What if the most daring heist in history wasn't in a vault, but at the bottom of the ocean? In the middle of the Cold War, the CIA attempted the impossible: to secretly steal a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from three miles under the Pacific. This episode uncovers Project Azorian, the CIA's six-year, billion-dollar covert operation. We detail the 1968 loss of the Soviet submarine K-129, with its nuclear missiles and codes, and the frantic Soviet search that came up empty. The story then follows the American effort to find what the Soviets could not, and the audacious engineering of a massive, purpose-built ship designed to lift the sub from the abyss, all under a cover story of deep-sea mining. You'll learn how one of the most complex engineering feats ever attempted was married to a high-stakes spy mission, revealing the incredible lengths nations will go to for a secret, and the razor-thin line between brilliant success and catastrophic exposure. #ProjectAzorian #ColdWarEspionage #CIA #K129Submarine #CovertOperation #DeepSeaEngineering #SovietNavy #HowardHughes Hosted by Ibnul Jaif Farabi. Produced by Light Knot Studios (lightknotstudios.com).