This conflicts with reality. In the real-world where historically the cover story crashed and burned very rapidly. There was only a period of about a year after the partial recovery of K-129 before the press knew of the deception, and only strenuous efforts kept the story from being published. Even then the story was delayed only a month. In 1975 the truth of Project Azorian was public, and there wasn&#x27;t widespread disbelief as you would have imagined. Nor were there men in black doing awful things to keep the story secret, just administration officials asking politely.