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I've been wondering if there might already be publicly known instances of Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) retrieval and recovery efforts in the past. Take, for example, Project Azorian.

In this case, the U.S. government allowed Hughes to manage the concealment of the retrieval and recovery of an advanced Russian submarine.

To the general public, it appeared as though they had stumbled upon special metals. Project Azorian was the most complex, expensive, and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War, with a cost of approximately $800 million, equivalent to $4.7 billion today. This project remained top-secret until its declassification in the 1990s.

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It wouldn't surprise me if the Department of Defense were to covertly enlist well-known corporations, such as SpaceX, for a similar undertaking in the current or near future.

Additional Information: Project Azorian, also known as the Glomar Explorer project, was a highly classified and ambitious CIA operation conducted during the 1970s Cold War era. Its primary objective was to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor. The sinking occurred in 1968, approximately 1,600 miles northwest of Hawaii. The U.S. government aimed to retrieve the submarine for intelligence purposes, believing it contained valuable Soviet military technology and codebooks. To conceal their true mission, the CIA claimed to be conducting deep-sea mining operations to recover manganese nodules from the ocean floor. Project Azorian remained a closely guarded secret for many years, finally being declassified in the late 1990s, revealing one of the most remarkable and audacious intelligence operations of the Cold War.

youtube video about Project Azorian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=sObyHG-gCf8