American spies locate a sunken Soviet submarine before the Russians can find it, but get caught in a game of cat and mou | dG1fa29MajFXcFBYRFU
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 We share a world in which the Soviets and ourselves can destroy each other.
00:06 It's a very dangerous kind of a world.
00:09 1968, a Soviet nuclear missile submarine sunk.
00:14 Soviets didn't know where it was lost.
00:17 We did.
00:19 Our mission, recover a submarine three miles beneath the surface,
00:27 under the cover of a Howard Hughes operation.
00:31 You're outright going to steal a Russian piece of merchandise.
00:35 It was fragile, the potential to create war.
00:39 We planned to build a surface ship, lift the submarine back up three miles.
00:44 Never done before. Nobody was sure what would happen.
00:48 You suddenly have this sensation of danger.
00:51 They might catch us in the act.
00:56 Was that the time that you ever think, "What on earth am I getting us into?"
01:00 Yes. Practically every day.
01:03 The CIA had been conducting the illegal operations for years.
01:11 There was no oversight.
01:13 Newspapers asking questions.
01:15 What would happen if that got out in the press?
01:18 If the Soviets got that?
01:20 The people are entitled to know what the government has done, the right and the wrong.
01:24 We can end up with an American conspiracy here.
01:26 He said, "We know what you've been doing."
01:29 We were in trouble.
01:31 In the intelligence business, there's no such thing as an absolute truth.
01:39 A newsman operates in the open, where everybody can see it.
01:43 The great danger are those who operate behind closed doors, those who operate in secret.
01:49 I believed I knew everything.
01:52 I didn't find out until years later how little I knew.
01:57 The End
02:02 (gentle music)