James L. Cate

Professor James L. Cate was an Air Force intelligence official and part of the Air Force Historical Division during World War II, and author of at least two pieces of Air Force literature, one entitled Origins of the Eighth Air Force: Plans, Organization, Doctrines, the other entitled History of the Twentieth Air Force: Genesis. The former is 143 pages in length, while the latter is 298 pages. Both were classified at the time of their writing, but declassified in 1958.

After the bombing of Hiroshima, which Cate may have been in some way involved with, he received a letter from Harry S. Truman which provided a lengthy justification for the dropping of the first atomic bombs ever to be used in warfare, Little Boy and Fat Man.