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As reported by AFP.
Also, interestingly, the report reveals that the North Vietnamese penetrated US communications systems and on occasion were able to direct "friendly fire" onto U.S. units.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzFIeNFkO1z6p7PHHwx5k_ig11-Q
Wonder if this will make it into the history books?
Only 40 years or so until we get the equivalent documents on the selling of the Iraq war.
...probably the "most historically significant feature" of the declassified report was the retelling of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to president Lyndon Johnson's sharp escalation of American forces in Vietnam.
The author of the report "demonstrates that not only is it not true, as (then US) secretary of defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was 'unimpeachable,' but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that 'no attack happened that night,'" FAS said in a statement.
"What this study demonstrated is that the available intelligence shows that there was no attack. It's a dramatic reversal of the historical record," Aftergood said.
"There were previous indications of this but this is the first time we have seen the complete study," he said.
Also, interestingly, the report reveals that the North Vietnamese penetrated US communications systems and on occasion were able to direct "friendly fire" onto U.S. units.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzFIeNFkO1z6p7PHHwx5k_ig11-Q
Wonder if this will make it into the history books?
Only 40 years or so until we get the equivalent documents on the selling of the Iraq war.