NY Times reports: NSA falsified Gulf of Tonkin intercepts

[Perry E. Metzger]

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 at piermont.com

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