“Seven Days in the Arctic” by Keith Woodcock is a painting commissioned in 2007 by the CIA to commemorate Operation COLDFEET.Keith Woodcock, CIA
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MAY 1961: A naval aircraft towing an aeromagnetic survey reported the sighting of an abandoned Soviet drifting ice station, which was a semi-permanent structure built on the Arctic ocean for the use of research and espionage. Shortly after, the Soviets released information stating that they were compelled to abandon this station due to the deterioration of the ice runway used to supply it. The visage of an abandoned Soviet research piqued the interest of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), who were attracted to the idea of comparing the research technology between US drifting ice stations and those of the Soviet Union. The real question the ONR had: how to get to the abandoned station.
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