This extraordinary documentary relates the little-known story of one of the most audacious intelligence operations of the Cold War: the six-year secret mission aimed to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the seabed before the Russians could locate it. The elaborate CIA cover story involved billionaire Howard Hughes claiming to be prospecting the ocean floor right under the noses of circling Soviet ships – all at the time of Watergate.
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Chair: Anthony Horowitz, novelist and screenwriter.
Producer Sheryl Crown is a twice Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated and winning independent producer and executive producer, respectively of the feature film Solomon and Gaenor and the acclaimed documentary Searching for Sugar Man.
Hank Phillippi Ryan is the investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, where she has changed laws and changed lives, and has won 37 Emmy Awards and dozens of other honors for her ground-breaking journalism. She is also the USA Today bestselling author of 15 novels of suspense (her newest is The House Guest), winning five Agatha Christie Awards and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. National book critics have called her "a superb and gifted story-teller."
Commodore Mike Finney, former commanding officer of two nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines with the Royal Navy, and British spokesman during the Kursk incident, when Britain sent a team to try to help raise the stricken Russian submarine.