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To: eldoradude

Movie plots are best left in movies, I fear. Though I find my credulity strained by just what the intelligence services are willing to try. Incredibly funny articles out on Kim brining his own security toilet to the meet. Which would be pure paranoia until you read on to where the attempt to collect Russian droppings failed, though they did manage to get one Russian VIP’s urine by taking the site below and rearranging the drain pipes.


279 posted on 06/11/2018 11:00:00 AM PDT by mairdie
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To: mairdie
Sum of All Fears has been mentioned in 7 Q posts so far...

Kim's personal potty, yeah there's a reason for that. Nuf said ;)

Here's an interesting take on the sub Howard Hughes' Glomar Exporer pulled up.

Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.

One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last.

Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence, assembled here for the first time, strongly suggests that the sub, K-129, sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile, most likely at the naval base at Pearl Harbor. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. While the Soviets searched in vain for the boat, U.S. intelligence was able to pinpoint the site of the disaster. The new Nixon administration launched a clandestine, half-billion-dollar project to recover the sunken K-129.

Contrary to years of deliberately misleading reports, the recovery operation was a great success. With the recovery of the sub, it became clear that the rogue was attempting to mimic a Chinese submarine, almost certainly with the intention of provoking a war between the U.S. and China. This was a carefully planned operation that, had it succeeded, would have had devastating consequences. During the successful recovery effort, the U.S. forged new relationships with the USSR and China. Could the information gleaned from the sunken sub have been a decisive factor shaping the new policies of détente between the Americans and the Soviets, and opening China to the West?

289 posted on 06/11/2018 11:12:14 AM PDT by eldoradude (Try believing your lying eyes for a change...)
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