COLDFEET

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06747014
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 13, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01456
• Publication Date: April 24, 2018

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Projeci COLDFEET was a 1962 CIA operation to extract intelligence from an abandoned Soviet Arctic research station.
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The research station had been abandoned after the runway became unusable due to the destruction caused by a pressure ridge.' I and it was assumed that it
would be crushed in the Arctic Ocean.''' Two intelligence collectors were dropped by a B-17 aircraft onto the station in an operation organized by the Office of
Naval Research. the Defense Intelligence Agency. and the Central Intelligence Agency.12I The team were retrieved seven days later using Ruben Fulton's
skyhook system. The operation provided intelligence on Soviet anti-submarine warfare and acoustics technoloo.12I as well as demonstrating that investigators
could be retrieved from remote areas.II
Paintings in CIA's Intelligence Art Gallery
Seven Days in the Arctic was painted by Keith Woodcock in 2007 and is an oil on canvas. The painting was
donated to the collection by Gar and Audrey Thorsrud. It is pan of CIA's Intelligence An Gallery and is
located in the Original Headquaners Building on the first floor in the F Corridor.
References
I. Robert Fulton's Skyhook and Operation Coldfeet (https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-
of-intelligence/csi-publicationsicsi-studies/studies/95unclassfLeary.html). Central Intelligence Agency
(2007-04-14). Retrieved on 2008-05-03.
2. Project COLDFEET: Seven Days in the Arctic (hups://vmw.cia.govinews-infomiationifeatured-srory-
archive/project-coldfeet.html). Central Intelligence Agency (2008-04-21). Retrieved 00 2008-05-03.
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