Bats Away! (really OT)

> In a message dated 98-06-29 20:18:21 EDT, Tom Sullivan writes:

<<    It should be understood--it’s been several years since I read this

tale, and I cannot remember the source, so it may well be apocryphal. It’s
such a good story that I cannot help but question its veracity, frankly. But
if it isn’t true: it should be.
> [quoted text omitted]

True - I've had it confirmed from several reputable scholarly-type real
heavy books. The whole thing is screamingly funny, unless you happened to be
one of
the bats (carnivorous mice that fly - gotta love 'em).  Now the one
story that
I want confirmed-or-denied is that late in the Ami involvement in
Vietnam &
neighboring states, around 1970-1, the CIA, or somebody, came up with
the idea
of filling a B-52s to payload capacity (40,000 kilos!) of Calgon, or
some other detergent. This would then by dropped on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
during the monsoon season. The rationale is, that since the bombed areas of
the
Trail were on dangerous, twisty mountain roads, the vehicles &/or people
would slip in the suds & fall to their doom. Amazing what people can come up
with when given carte blanche...