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Thread ID: 20854 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-11-02
2005-11-02 05:00 | User Profile
Article Raises Questions About Vietnam War By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has been blocking the release of an article by one of its historians that says intelligence officers falsified documents about a disputed attack that was used to escalate the Vietnam War, according to a researcher who has requested the article. Matthew Aid, who asked for the article under the Freedom of Information Act last year, said it appears that officers at the NSA made honest mistakes in translating interceptions involving the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to President Johnson's escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ... [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051031/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/vietnam_intelligence[/url]
2005-11-02 20:24 | User Profile
we made mistakes in Vietnam? no kidding....
2005-11-03 01:03 | User Profile
[quote=confederate_commando]Article Raises Questions About Vietnam War By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has been blocking the release of an article by one of its historians that says intelligence officers falsified documents about a disputed attack that was used to escalate the Vietnam War, according to a researcher who has requested the article. Matthew Aid, who asked for the article under the Freedom of Information Act last year, said it appears that officers at the NSA made honest mistakes in translating interceptions involving the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to President Johnson's escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ... [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051031/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/vietnam_intelligence"]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051031/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/vietnam_intelligence[/URL]
It's a pretty believable article, given that the research appartently depicts some mid level civil servants trying to cover their arses when some of their output turned out to be sloppy work.
However, quite a few other sources have arisen over the years, to include ADM Stockdale, who were aware at the time of the thin to fabricated justification of the Gulf of Tonkin engagements. I guess this article it trying to show a wider web of self delusion, error, and buffoonery.
Slow news day, I guess.
AE