CNN reported on the US desire to conceal from the USSR a secret operation to search for the Titanic

In 1985, the United States used the search for the Titanic as a cover for a top-secret military operation by the US Navy against the USSR. This was announced on August 1 by oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered the liner, to CNN.

"At that time, people didn't know, at least many of them, that the Titanic was a cover for a top-secret military operation that I was conducting as a naval intelligence officer. <...> We didn't want the USSR to know where the submarine was," Ballard said.

It is specified that the purpose of the secret operation was to search for the American nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion that sank in the Atlantic. Argo technology, which was developed by Ballard, was also used for this purpose. She is able to broadcast video using a remotely operated research vehicle to the ship, she added."Газета.Ru ".

The New York Post (NYP) reported on August 18, citing a source, that an anonymous billionaire would pay $10 million to dive to the wreckage of the sunken cruise ship Titanic. At the same time, the source of the publication decided not to disclose the name, as he himself would like to talk about it.

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