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Deep Sea Mining Ops Poised to Break Ground 40 Years After Fake One
https:// www.newsmax.com/newsfront/deep-sea-mining-cia-howard-hughes-operation/2018/02/19/id/844203/
>The CIA in the 1970s used eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes as the fake frontman for a faux deep-sea mining operation that was in reality an attempt to bring up a sunken Russian submarine from the ocean depths, the BBC reports.
>Fast forward 40 years, a deep sea mining operation is poised to launch off Papa New Guinea in the hopes of mining gold and copper from vents in the ocean floor.
>But it all started as a ruse in 1974.
>The CIA spent $500 million to build a ship — the Hughes Glomar Explorer —for the sole purpose of raising a K-129 Russian submarine that was 3 miles down on the ocean floor about 1,500 miles north of Hawaii, the BBC reports.
>The ship had every tool to go deep sea mining for manganese modules, but every tool — including a capture ship and a moon pool to haul the sub in its underbelly — was built to bring up the K-129 and its nuclear codes and missiles that it carried.
>The mission failed when one of the claws raising the sub snapped, sending half of the sub — and its valuable contents — back down to whence it came.