I'm the only person who knows the three-letter code group.

— General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden)

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5 seconds sound clip from the Dr. Strangelove movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- As an officer in Her Majesty's Air Force, it is my clear duty under the present circumstances to issue the recall code upon my own authority and bring back the wing.

- If you'll excuse me, sir.

- I'm afraid, sir, I must ask you for the key and the recall code. Have you got them handy, sir?

- I told you to take it easy, Group Captain.

- There's nothing anybody can do about this thing now.

- I'm the only person who knows the three-letter code group.

- Then I must insist, sir, that you give them to me.

- Do I take it, sir, that you are threatening a brother officer with a gun?

- I suppose it never occurred to you that while we're chatting here so enjoyably, a decision is being made by the president and the joint chiefs in the war room at the Pentagon.

- And when they realize there is no possibility of recalling the wing, there will be only one course of action open.

[...]

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