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Gulf of Tonkin

FILE DATE 1964

CROSS-REFS 03

STATUS NEVER CLOSED

SUMMARY

The second attack never happened. The war it started did.

FULL DOSSIER

August 4, 1964: the U.S. reported a second North Vietnamese attack on the destroyer Maddox, and Congress passed the resolution that opened the Vietnam War. The NSA's own declassified history (Robert Hanyok's study, released 2005) concluded no attack occurred that night — signals intelligence was mishandled and skewed to support the report. The first attack (August 2) did happen. A fully documented case of a war predicated on an event that didn't occur, and thus the load-bearing citation for every 'pretext' claim on this map.

SOURCES ON RECORD

01Hanyok, 'Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds…' Cryptologic Quarterly (2001, declassified 2005)

02Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Pub. L. 88-408

03McNamara, In Retrospect (1995)

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