Last updated: 17:0 - November 4, 2005
US false report on Tonkin Gulf incident called a historic fact
http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/news/041105/world_us.htm
Vietnam has described a US report saying false intelligence given to the US Administration in 1964 led to the escalation of the American war in Vietnam as a historic fact.
Asked about Vietnam's reaction to the finding by a US historian that false intelligence covered up by the National Security Agency prompted the US escalation in Vietnam (the Tonkin Gulf episode), Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dung on November 3 said everybody knows that the Tonkin Gulf event in 1964 was created by the then US administration, using it as a reason to extend war to the territory of Vietnam.
"This is a historic fact," he stressed. (VNA)
toasoan@nhandan.org.vn
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Intelligence distorted during Vietnam
Scott Shane
WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, NSA officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes, two people familiar with the historian's work say.
The historian's conclusion is the first serious accusation that communications intercepted by the NSA, the secretive eavesdropping and code-breaking agency, were falsified so that they made it look as if North Vietnam had attacked American destroyers on August 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash.
President Lyndon B Johnson cited the supposed attack to persuade Congress to authorise broad military action in Vietnam, but most historians have concluded in recent years that there was no second attack.
The NSA historian, Robert J Hanyok, found a pattern of translation mistakes that went uncorrected, altered intercept times and selective citation of intelligence that persuaded him that midlevel agency officers had deliberately skewed the evidence.
Hanyok concluded that they had done it not out of any political motive but to cover up earlier errors, and that top NSA and defence officials and Johnson neither knew about nor condoned the deception. Hanyok's findings were published nearly five years ago in a classified in-house journal.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1281273.cms
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US false report on Tonkin Gulf incident called a historic fact
http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/news/041105/world_us.htm
Vietnam has described a US report saying false intelligence given to the US Administration in 1964 led to the escalation of the American war in Vietnam as a historic fact.
Asked about Vietnam's reaction to the finding by a US historian that false intelligence covered up by the National Security Agency prompted the US escalation in Vietnam (the Tonkin Gulf episode), Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dung on November 3 said everybody knows that the Tonkin Gulf event in 1964 was created by the then US administration, using it as a reason to extend war to the territory of Vietnam.
"This is a historic fact," he stressed. (VNA)
toasoan@nhandan.org.vn
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Intelligence distorted during Vietnam
Scott Shane
WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, NSA officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes, two people familiar with the historian's work say.
The historian's conclusion is the first serious accusation that communications intercepted by the NSA, the secretive eavesdropping and code-breaking agency, were falsified so that they made it look as if North Vietnam had attacked American destroyers on August 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash.
President Lyndon B Johnson cited the supposed attack to persuade Congress to authorise broad military action in Vietnam, but most historians have concluded in recent years that there was no second attack.
The NSA historian, Robert J Hanyok, found a pattern of translation mistakes that went uncorrected, altered intercept times and selective citation of intelligence that persuaded him that midlevel agency officers had deliberately skewed the evidence.
Hanyok concluded that they had done it not out of any political motive but to cover up earlier errors, and that top NSA and defence officials and Johnson neither knew about nor condoned the deception. Hanyok's findings were published nearly five years ago in a classified in-house journal.
NYT News Service
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1281273.cms
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IS ANYBODY OUTRAGED YET ??
6/6/56 -- 11/13/69
