Moise and Prados on page 1 NYT today about Tonkin
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Moise and Prados on page 1 NYT today about Tonkin
well, at the end of the continuation of the story on A16.
In an internal report that remains secret, Internal National Security
Agency historians have specified details that would further Edwin
Moise's account of the perception of the Gulf of Tonkin incidents by US
intelligence (Tonkin Gulf and the escalation of the Vietnam War / Edwin
E. Moïse, UNC Press, 1996).
Robert J. Hanyoks's reading of NSA archives suggests that someone
fiddled with incoming data to cover up a mistake, immediately after it
was made, before Johnson went to Congress.
John Prados, of the National Security archive, and Moise both told the
NYT they would like to know more. Robert McNamara who relied on the
doctored data says the whole record should be published.
NSA has been dragging its feet to avoid untoward comparisons to the present.
"Doubts Cast on Vietnam Incident by Secret Study Stays Classified" by
Scott Shane. NYT October 31, 2005, page 1 and A16.