Neither Confirm Nor Deny | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

American spies locate a sunken Soviet submarine before the Russians can find it, but get caught in a game of cat and mou | dG1fa29MajFXcFBYRFU

Transcript

00:00 [MUSIC]

00:02 We share a world in which the Soviets and ourselves can destroy each other.

00:06 It's a very dangerous kind of a world.

00:09 1968, a Soviet nuclear missile submarine sunk.

00:14 Soviets didn't know where it was lost.

00:17 We did.

00:19 Our mission, recover a submarine three miles beneath the surface,

00:27 under the cover of a Howard Hughes operation.

00:31 You're outright going to steal a Russian piece of merchandise.

00:35 It was fragile, the potential to create war.

00:39 We planned to build a surface ship, lift the submarine back up three miles.

00:44 Never done before. Nobody was sure what would happen.

00:48 You suddenly have this sensation of danger.

00:51 They might catch us in the act.

00:56 Was that the time that you ever think, "What on earth am I getting us into?"

01:00 Yes. Practically every day.

01:03 The CIA had been conducting the illegal operations for years.

01:11 There was no oversight.

01:13 Newspapers asking questions.

01:15 What would happen if that got out in the press?

01:18 If the Soviets got that?

01:20 The people are entitled to know what the government has done, the right and the wrong.

01:24 We can end up with an American conspiracy here.

01:26 He said, "We know what you've been doing."

01:29 We were in trouble.

01:31 In the intelligence business, there's no such thing as an absolute truth.

01:39 A newsman operates in the open, where everybody can see it.

01:43 The great danger are those who operate behind closed doors, those who operate in secret.

01:49 I believed I knew everything.

01:52 I didn't find out until years later how little I knew.

01:57 The End

02:02 (gentle music)