>>15849777 pb
just to mention
'gulf of tonkin' was a simulation.
there was no attack, just the announcement of one.
first attack never happened either.
Notice the first paragraph calls the confrontations 'incidents'
It was fictitious.
Perhaps MacNamara wanted to come half way clean before he died? Hence his confimation as to the second 'attack'
wiki of course isn't the greatest info, but evern there they say the second confrontation was 'imaginary'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
The Gulf Of Tonkin Incident: The Lie That Sparked The Vietnam War
By Hannah McKennett | Checked By John Kuroski
Published September 10, 2019
Updated September 12, 2019
https://allthatsinteresting.com/gulf-of-tonkin
https://infogalactic.com/info/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
'The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox incident, is the name given to what were originally claimed to be two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but eventually became very controversial with widespread claims that either one or both incidents were false, and possibly purposefully so. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, reported being attacked by three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron.[1] Maddox expended over 280 3-inch and 5-inch shells in what was claimed to be a sea battle. One US aircraft was damaged, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were allegedly damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were said to have been killed, with six more wounded. There were no U.S. casualties.[2]
It was originally claimed by the National Security Agency that a Second Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead evidence was found of "Tonkin ghosts"[3] (false radar images) and not actual North Vietnamese torpedo boats. In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, the former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara admitted that the August 2 USS Maddox attack happened with no Defense Department response, but the August 4 Gulf of Tonkin attack never happened.[4]'