The second alleged attack on August 4, 1964, never actually occurred. Declassified NSA documents in 2005 confirmed that signals intelligence was manipulated to support the claim of a North Vietnamese attack.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident that justified US escalation in Vietnam was fabricated
βThe August 4th attack in the Gulf of Tonkin did not happen as reported. The intelligence was manipulated.β
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