Gen. Curtis LeMay, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, met National Geographic photographer and mountaineer Barry Bishop at a Washington cocktail party, where Bishop's description of the view from Mount Everest's summit inspired the idea of placing a surveillance device on a Himalayan peak.
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