"The Reds, industrious little dudes that they were, they were trying to breed their own supersoldiers — you know, 'In Soviet Russia, science makes you!'"
— Dr. Charles Zurn, The Secret World
There's a blurry photograph of a concrete box inside the file, snapped from above by a high-flying U-2 during the autumn of '61. Three coffin-shaped lakes, bulking dark and gloomy beneath the arctic sun; a canal heading west, deep in the Soviet heartland, surrounded by warning trefoils and armed guards. Deep waters saturated with calcium salts, concrete coffer-dams lined with gold and lead. A sleeping giant pointed at NATO, more terrifying than any nuclear weapon.
Project Koschei.
Project Koschei.
