The Eureka Incident

Murder and Espionage in Canada’s High Arctic. Shortly after WWII the US and Canada established five Joint Arctic Weather Stations in Canada’s High Arctic. The uninhabited area was void of data for polar air masses which descend into populated areas of North America and made reliably accurate weather forecasts for aviation and the general public impossible. The weather stations were intended to fill this void and also be the platform for other scientific studies. At the beginning of the cold war and the race for nuclear supremacy, both the US and Russia were anxious to preserve the secrecy of their tactical might. Unbeknownst to the weather station staff in Eureka, an agent was posing as an employee and it was his intention to de-rail scientific programs which might jeopardize Soviet ambitions.