The Gulf of Tonkin incident, 40 years later
Subtitle: flawed intelligence and the decision for war in Vietnam
By: edited by John Prados
Contributors: National Security Archive (U.S.)
Series: National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 132; National Security Archive electronic briefing book -- no. 132.
Publisher: National Security Archive
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Tonkin Gulf Incidents, 1964; Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Description: This electronic briefing book includes John Prados analysis of the intercepts, together with audio files and transcripts of the key Tonkin Gulf conversations between President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, as well as photographs and charts from the Tonkin Gulf incident, a documentary chronology, a CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate on possible North Vietnamese responses to U.S. actions from May 1964, and links to other National Security Archive publications on Vietnam.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 16, 2005).

"Posted August 4, 2004."

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