In 1962 the Office of Naval Research and the CIA launched one of the most exotic spy missions of the Cold War: the parachuting of two intelligence officers onto a hastily abandoned Soviet drift station on an Arctic ice pack. This book offers a first-time description of the top secret mission by one of the parachutists and a leading CIA historian.
Based on station logs, after-action reports, and interviews with many of the participants, this one-of-a-kind account provides fascinating back-ground on the personnel, special equipment, mysterious CIA aircraft, and Soviet and U.S. drift stations.