The CIA and the Deep Sea Mining Industry

During the Cold War, there was a Soviet sub that sunk to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It happened to sink in an area where there were known to be polymetallic nodules. The CIA basically said, hey, let's try to recover this Soviet sub because you would learn so much about the nuclear codes and whatever intel they thought they could get from the Soviet sub. So the CIA got in contact with none other than Howard Hughes, who was this eccentric billionaire.