A group that helped find the Titanic received permission to search an Austrian lake for documents and gold that the Nazis may have dumped there at the end of World War II. The Oceaning Advanced Technical Group will join the CBS Corp. in searching Toplitzsee for the items. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center is coordinating the expedition.
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