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Declassified photos reveal CIA’s deep-sea rescue of a spy satellite

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Only July 10, 1971, a capsule filled with film from America’s top spy satellite crashed into the Pacific Ocean, and settled 16,000 feet below. The CIA and the Navy decided they had to launch a deep sea rescue mission unlike any that had been previously attempted. The details of what happened next have been locked in government archives… until yesterday.
via Wired 

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