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Articlehigh: Project COLDFEET is a documented 1962 CIA-Browse result

Project Coldfeet Arctic Intelligence Recovery Program

Project COLDFEET mattered because it looked impossible on paper and still worked. Two American specialists parachuted onto an abandoned Soviet drift station in the Arctic, collected documents, photographs, film, and equipment samples, then were hauled off the ice by a modified B-17 using the Fulton Skyhook system. The strongest public record does not need embellishment. COLDFEET was a real intelligence operation: a rare case where Arctic science, submarine warfare, CIA air proprietaries, Navy research, and black-program recovery technology intersected in one frozen mission.

Declassified / Black Projects/declassified black program/2026-04-03
Project ColdfeetOperation ColdfeetCIAOffice of Naval ResearchFulton SkyhookIntermountain Aviation
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Operation Mogul High Altitude Detection Program

Operation Mogul mattered because it shows how a real secret program can generate a myth bigger than the program itself. What the military built was not a flying saucer. It was something more historically dangerous in its own way: a classified attempt to turn the upper atmosphere into an early-warning listening field for Soviet atomic activity. The balloons were real. The secrecy was real. The strange debris was real. The official cover story was real. That is why Mogul still matters. It is the place where Cold War surveillance, classified science, and public myth fused into one of the most famous secrecy events in American history.

Declassified / Black Projects/declassified program/2026-04-02
Operation MogulProject MogulMOGULRoswellRoswell incidentballoon train