Out Of The Blank #1231 - Ken Robison

Ken is an historian and preservationist and a chronicler of neglected Montana history at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton and the Great Falls/Cascade County Historic Preservation Commission. Ken served in Naval Intelligence for nearly thirty years with eleven years of sea duty in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Vietnam War and Cold War contingency operations. During Operation Homecoming he served as escort and debriefer for senior Navy Prisoner of War James Bond Stockdale. Ken's book "Cold War Montana" on Montana's 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.

Ken's Links:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09G7DGRLD/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i5
https://www.kenrobisonhistory.com/

My Links:
https://linktr.ee/outoftheblank_podcast