In 1962, the CIA found Spies in the Arctic and.... wow!

Project Coldfeet was a top secret mission from the CIA to retrieve intel from an abandoned research station from the Soviet Union. A pressure ridge had destroyed the station's runway, rendering it impossible to reach. But impossible isn't in the CIA's vocabulary.

FULL TRANSCRIPT + SOURCES:

FURTHER READING:
Robert Fulton's Skyhook and Operation Coldfeet (CIA):

FURTHER WATCHING:
The Debrief: Behind the Artifact - Skyhook (Central Intelligence Agency):

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[danielescobar]

Great video, how many kilometers is a mile again? 2ish?

[RangerB]

I believe this incident became the basis for the spy thriller book and movie "Ice Station Zebra" in 1968, starring Rock Hudson & Ernest Borgnine.

[ivanivanych]

Put yourself in the place of the station's management, and you will understand that for disclosing information that could get to the enemy, you face life imprisonment in a GULAG. Did the documents allegedly found by the CIA agents have no place during the evacuation of the station?

[CHRISTSlave]

Whooo getting snagged up at several hundred miles an hour would hurrrrt. Not to mention may render some Men forever ..not whole. What a tab to get! ESSAYONS ~ Gnav Agnd

[marcoaustin]

I kept hearing the term “Intel”, am I correct? What exactly does it mean?