100 miles south of Hawaii. The Hughes Glomar Explorer unloads the heavy and useless wreckage of the Soviet submarine K-129. It retains valuable material on board, including human remains, personal items, nuclear torpedoes, the vessel’s iconic bell, and more. Many of these items will be handed over to Boris Yeltsin’s Russia after the end of the Cold War, by the head of the CIA himself, on his first official visit to the Kremlin.
