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RESEARCH COLLECTION

Recovery Operation

2 documented files in this collection.

FILE 0071962
High documentation

Project COLDFEET

A two-man intelligence mission onto an abandoned Soviet drifting ice station, followed by an airborne pickup using the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system.

ArcticFulton recovery systemSoviet station
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FILE 0091968
High documentation

Project AZORIAN

A covert CIA engineering effort using the Hughes Glomar Explorer to recover material from Soviet submarine K-129, which had sunk in deep Pacific waters.

Glomar ExplorerK-129submarine
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