4WD Diplomacy: We Retrace U.S. Intelligence Cold War Routes in a Mercedes G-Wagen and SRT Jeep

– ‘‘Soviet soldiers were always hungry,” says Larry Kelley, a retired Marine Corps colonel who during the Cold War swapped the excitement of piloting Douglas A-4 Skyhawks for the even greater thrills of gathering ­military intelligence behind the Iron Curtain. Apparently, rather than issue maps, the Red Army used “route directors,” or troops who would […]