The floating crane being used to haul off shattered steel from the Baltimore bridge collapse has taken on many jobs over the decades. But its most notable operation was helping the CIA retrieve part of a sunken Soviet submarine.
The Chesapeake 1000, the crane that is being used to clean up shattered steel from the Maryland bridge collapse, was previously used for CIA missions during the cold war.
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