The episode explores the origins and consequences of the 'Glomar response' — a government evasion tactic meaning 'we can neither confirm nor deny' — born from a secret 1970s CIA mission to recover a sunken Soviet submarine, and how it has since become a widespread tool to obscure truth in
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