Evan Hafer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They have nine presidential citations.
It's the most decorated group of men in the US Navy
And everything they've done is still classified.
It's a Cold War era nuclear submarine that was modified and ultimately tasked out by the CIA to go out and do collection.
And they were the guys that, hundreds of feet down...
They would land on the bottom of the ocean and the Soviets had these military communication lines that were basically hard lines that would go under a bay so they could communicate back and forth and they felt like they were secure.
And one of their jobs, which is, I've never been able to see anything declassified, but the stories that are out there, these guys would land on the bottom of the ocean, send out divers at hundreds of feet
And these guys would hook listening devices on those lines hundreds of feet down, like in cold, dark water.
Like you're out in 400 feet or 300 feet of water, pitch black.
And your job is to go and put a listening device on a Soviet communication line in 1986 or whatever it was.
And you're in enemy territory.
So if you get discovered, you're dead.
And none of these guys, that's the incredible thing.
None of these guys have ever said anything about it.
Decades and not only decades of missions, months away from home.
None of these guys have said a fucking thing.
They've not been on a podcast.