As early as the mid 1990s, there was talk of South American drug cartels interested in purchasing Soviet era submarines for smuggling purposes. The US Navy should be cleared to sink any of these subs upon being found.
DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. Ecuadorean authorities seized the sub before it could make its maiden voyage.
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