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The Lucona Conspiracy: Six Dead to Hide a Fake Nuclear Cargo
The Lucona Conspiracy: Six Dead to Hide a Fake Nuclear Cargo
Fear that power can rewrite tragedy begins this episode: a ship blown apart by an internal explosion, a cargo declared at 212 million Austrian schillings, and six lives erased to hide that the hold contained obsolete coal-mining machinery - not nuclear equipment. Who used government influence to bury the truth, and how long did it take before a remotely operated vehicle finally proved the lie?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the Lucona’s January 1977 voyage to the decades-long effort to uncover what was…
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