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35. Gen. Curtis LeMay ordered intrusion missions trying to instigate Soviet response...

Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:28 PM

Oct 2015

...and ulitimately escalate into World War III. A madman. From when Eisenhower was president...

STRANGER THAN 'STRANGELOVE': A GENERAL'S FORAYS INTO THE NUCLEAR ZONE

by Paul Lashmar
Wahington Post, July 3, 1996

EXCERPT...

Austin and his crew were summoned to meet Gen. Le May back in the United States. He wanted to decorate them for bravery.

"He said 'I tried to get you guys a silver star,' but he said 'you gotta explain that to Congress and everybody else in Washington when you do something like that, so here's a couple of DFCs {Distinguished Flying Crosses}, we'll give you for that mission. There wasn't anybody in the room except the wing commander and us three guys, Gen. Le May and his intelligence officer."

It was at this meeting that the question arises about Le May's motives. Hal Austin recalls what happened next:

"Then Gen. Le May said, 'Well, maybe if we do this overflight right, we can get World War III started.'

CONTINUED...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1994/07/03/stranger-than-strangelove-a-generals-forays-into-the-nuclear-zone/4dc9a919-8d2f-47cb-82ee-e74d9ecc436a/

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