Spy agency faked key Vietnam War data

mkpdavies · 03-11-2005, 11:45 AM

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...1/ixworld.html

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One of America's spy agencies faked key intelligence used to justify its intervention in the Vietnam War, it was disclosed yesterday.
But the revelation was kept secret by the National Security Agency, partly because of fears that it would boost criticism of the intelligence services over the war in Iraq.

Another war based on lies then. A pattern is emerging here.

Lafayette · 04-11-2005, 12:23 PM

So now there is official confirmation of something that has been believed for a while. I read a biography of Admiral Stockdale that said before his capture the one thing he most feared revealing under torture was that the second "attack" in the Gulf of Tonkin was nothing more than a radar signature caused by the weather. At the time, he was one of the pilots scrambled to make contact with the unseen North Vietnamese torpedo boats.

It's a shame. All those people. I guess no one knows for sure, but I've always seen the estimates on Vietnamese dead range from 1-4 million. 75% of the 58,000 Americans were under the age of 25. Most would be grandfathers by now. And none of it made a bit of difference.

I really shouldn't be surprised. Considering all the aide sent to the French for their war in Vietnam, it would seem to follow that the US believed wrongly the place had enough strategic value to make it worth what they threw away.

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04-11-2005, 12:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lafayette Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 114	So now there is official confirmation of something that has been believed for a while. I read a biography of Admiral Stockdale that said before his capture the one thing he most feared revealing under torture was that the second "attack" in the Gulf of Tonkin was nothing more than a radar signature caused by the weather. At the time, he was one of the pilots scrambled to make contact with the unseen North Vietnamese torpedo boats. It's a shame. All those people. I guess no one knows for sure, but I've always seen the estimates on Vietnamese dead range from 1-4 million. 75% of the 58,000 Americans were under the age of 25. Most would be grandfathers by now. And none of it made a bit of difference. I really shouldn't be surprised. Considering all the aide sent to the French for their war in Vietnam, it would seem to follow that the US believed wrongly the place had enough strategic value to make it worth what they threw away.