Moscow, Russia. CIA Director Robert Gates enters the Kremlin for the first time, hosted by Boris Yeltsin. Among other things, he brings him the video of the burial at sea of the human remains of the K-129 sailors, recovered twenty years earlier by the CIA in the North Pacific as part of Project Azorian. He also gives him the ship’s bell, still almost intact, and the precise coordinates of the site. In 1998, on the thirtieth anniversary of the disaster, Russia will award the Medal of Courage to the widows, who had previously received no compensation, recognition, or pension, as the sailors’ deaths had never been publicly acknowledged.
