The secret history of the Baltimore bridge's crane

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The Chesapeake 1000, aka 'Chessy,' was used in a covert CIA mission.

Share on nextdoor The Chesapeake 1000, aka "Chessy." Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBaltimore bridge has a backstory that reads like a Spielberg spy movie: Cold War espionage, a covert CIA mission, and … Howard Hughes?— one of the East Coast's largest — arrived in Baltimore last month to help remove the precarious jumble of debris from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.," the crane can lift 1,000 tons and was used half a century ago to aid a U.S. spy operation.

And, of course, this all had to be done in secret. "They must be smoking something to even believe they can do that," a former CIA official recalled a Naval official saying at the time.

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