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Record #140789:

Project Coldfeet: secret mission to a Soviet ice station / William M. Leary, Leonard A. LeSchack.

Title: Project Coldfeet: secret mission to a Soviet ice station / William M. Leary, Leonard A. LeSchack.
Author(s): Leary, William M.
LeSchack, Leonard A.
Date: 1996.
Publisher: Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press
Abstract: First published account of top secret CIA operation in 1962 which involved placing US scientists on rapidly thawing Soviet ice station (NP8) immediately after its abandonment. Project's objectives were to make assessment of state of Soviet expertise, in particular in relation to submarine detection.
Keywords: 551.326.62 -- Icebergs, tabular.
355 -- Defence.
629.127 -- Submarines.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1962 Project Coldfeet.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1952- US Drifting Ice Stations.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1937-91 Soviet Drifting Ice Stations.
91(08) -- Expeditions: 1959-62 SP-8.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*60) -- Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 91(08)[1962]
ISBN: 1557505144
SPRI record no.: 140789

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