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English: The cover story for Project AZORIAN operation was that eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes owned the ship and intended to use it to mine manganese nodules from the ocean floor. This is one of the nodules that Glomar actually recovered from the Pacific.
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Source CIA.gov
Author Central Intelligence Agency

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One of the manganese nodules that Glomar recovered from the Pacific, now encased in lucite.

29 July 2022

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