WATCH THE WATER
The BBC has a huge feature about the CIA and mining the ocean floor. It's on Drudge now:
http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining
This BBC article might explain "Watch the Water" and "Red October."
Here's the tl;dr. A Russian sub sank in in the early 70s. The US was interested in recovering it for intelligence purposes–they thought it might have info on Russia's nuclear program. So the CIA spent years building a ship that could recover the sunken sub. Publicly, this project was sold as a "deep sea mining program" and they convinced Howard Hughes to be the public face of the program. They even held deep sea mining conferences and university academic programs to help sell the lie. Eventually they finished the ship and tried to recover the sub, but alas, it didn't work. Or at least the BBC claims it didn't work. Anyways, key points here:
>Using Howard Hughes as a front sounds eerily similar to using Elon Musk as a public front for spook project.
>The scale of lying to the public for this one single intelligence project is mind-boggling.
>There's a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on the ocean floor. God only knows what happened to it.
http:// www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/deep_sea_mining