When the transport case is removed from the ISSAPC, just before it is opened, the temperature readout shows -273 Celsius. This is .15 degrees Celsius above Absolute Zero. General Randolph unzips the plastic body bag barehanded. At that temperature, his fingers would almost immediately receive severe burns, and the bag would shatter due to the extreme cold.
Colonel McQueen references a WWII operation where Allied forces used a dead man to pass false information to the enemy. He incorrectly states that this was prior to D-Day. The actual operation was code-named Mincemeat and was prior to the invasion of Sicily . It was, against all odds, successful.