# We can neither confirm or deny

By [luck](https://paragraph.com/@898836) · 2022-09-25

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The second half of the museum focuses in detail on some specific operations.

The phrase "we can neither confirm nor deny" is a familiar one for those who report on intelligence agencies and its origins lie in a story detailed in the museum using never seen before items.

In the late 1960s, a Soviet Union submarine was lost somewhere on the ocean floor. After the US located it, the CIA worked with billionaire Howard Hughes to try and recover the wreck - and the technology on board. A cover story was developed that Hughes was going to mine the ocean floor using a ship called the Glomar Explorer.

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*Originally published on [luck](https://paragraph.com/@898836/we-can-neither-confirm-or-deny)*