CIA’s recovery of Hexagon film capsule declassified

The U.S. Navy was roped in by the CIA to recover a film capsule from a KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite that had landed 16,400 feet below the Pacific Ocean in 1972. Details of that salvage operation was recently declassified.

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