Cold War Montana

Home to some of the most powerful nuclear missile systems in the world, Montana played an indispensable role in the war against Communism. Utilizing the Lend—Lease pipeline, Soviet spies ferried stolen nuclear and industrial secrets, loaded in diplomatic pouches, from Great Falls to the Soviet Union. Army nurse Lieutenant Diane Carlson served as “an angel of mercy” at the Pleiku Evacuation Hospital in the Central Highlands in Vietnam. Young Montana smokejumper “Hog” Daniels joined the CIA’s...