Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks
Yahoo! News
01/08/08
North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the 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...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/pl_afp/usvietnamintelligence512
Iran: Pentagon sends up Gulf of Tonkin trial balloon
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
01/08/08
An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. No shots were fired an an Iranian official in Tehran said the incident amounted to ’something normal’...
http://tinyurl.com/39xuwp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tonkin
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
01/08/08
North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the 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...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/pl_afp/usvietnamintelligence512
Iran: Pentagon sends up Gulf of Tonkin trial balloon
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
01/08/08
An Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters, then vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire, the top U.S. Navy commander in the area said Monday. No shots were fired an an Iranian official in Tehran said the incident amounted to ’something normal’...
http://tinyurl.com/39xuwp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tonkin
http://freepage.twoday.net/topics/Is+Iran+next/
rudkla - 9. Jan, 11:42
