Project Coldfeet: Secret Mission to a Soviet Ice Station

Naval Institute Special Warfare Series

by William M. Leary, Leonard A. LeSchack

The first-time description of one of the most exotic and successful spy missions of the Cold the parachuting of two intelligence officers including one of the authors onto a hastily abandoned Soviet drift station on a deteriorating Arctic ice pack to collect data, and their retrieval using an experimental aerial recovery technique. The same CIA-owned B-17 with Fulton Skyhook gear that retrieved the COLDFEET team from the ice of NP8 also appeared in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1996

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very thorough first hand account of Project Coldfeet and a must read for anyone embarking on a similar mission. Most of the information was new and fascinating to me. I picked up on each authors writing style without any difficulty. At times I wanted to skip sections as it was less novel and more of reading a log book of unfamiliar locations in the arctic.
Being a U.S. Navy Reserve Intelligence Officer I felt this was a good choice to read and will look for more of the same.

[Doyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing story and well written concerning this cold war operation to ascertain what the Soviets capabilities and knowledge of under the arctic ice cap. The daring and bravery, much less the innovation for personnel recovery is simply astounding. Well worth the read.

[Mark Hanneman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting activities to the North...

[Petr Toman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Velmi zajímavá operace pro získání tajných údajů. Obrovské dobrodružství. A navíc neuvěřitelně podrobnosti k systému skyhook.

[Matt Heavner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing history. Lots of backstory, they were only on the station for a few days, so this is a little sparse about the actual time on ice. But background and story - amazing!