Про Бетезду я поправился, когда мне имя напомнили ;=) Апокриф, да - и причем с авторскими ушами. Вот чего Википедия говорит, любезно по выше возлежащей ссылке:

There was also a press campaign against Forrestal, led by columnist Drew Pearson. The campaign tried to make it appear that he was paranoid. Paranoia, however, was never mentioned in the official evaluations of his psychiatric state. One of Pearson's most spectacular claims was that while Forrestal was at Hobe Sound, Florida, shortly before he was hospitalized, he was awakened by a siren in the middle of the night and ran out into the street exclaiming, "The Russians are attacking." This claim has not been confirmed by anyone who was there that night, and was described as a fabrication by Captain George Raines, the Navy doctor in charge of Forrestal's treatment (See Hoopes and Brinkley, pp. 455-456.).

Просто в наше благословенное время Зориных, Дунаевых унд Сейфуль-Мулюковых эту фразу на ЦТ приписывали а) без ссылок на апокрифичность и б) как раз моменту полета. В общем, я их понимаю: так красивше.