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NY Times reports: NSA falsified Gulf of Tonkin intercepts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Oct 31 09:43:20 2005
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:06:11 -0500
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/31war.html?ex=1288414800&en=e2f5e341687a2ed9&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - The National Security Agency has kept secret
since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin
Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War,
N.S.A. officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to
cover up their mistakes, two people familiar with the historian's
work say.
The historian's conclusion is the first serious accusation that
communications intercepted by the N.S.A., the secretive
eavesdropping and code-breaking agency, were falsified so that they
made it look as if North Vietnam had attacked American destroyers
on Aug. 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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