NSA Has Been Blocking Article that Raises Question on Vietnam War

[kerrygoddess]

National Security Agency Has Been Blocking Article that Raises Question on Vietnam War
October 31, 2005

The release of an article that raises questions about a disputed attack that was used to escalate the Vietnam War has been blocked by The National Security Agency. According to a researcher who has requested the article, there are lessons to be learned to prevent similar escalations to war. Notably is the comparison to “overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s arsenal.”

Matthew Aid, who asked for the article under the Freedom of Information Act last year, said it appears that officers at the NSA made honest mistakes in translating interceptions involving the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to President Johnson’s escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Rather than correct the mistakes, the 2001 article in the NSA’s classified Cryptologic Quarterly says, midlevel officials decided to falsify documents to cover up the errors, according to Aid, who is working on a history of the agency and has talked to a number of current and former government officials about this chapter of American history.

Aid draws comparisons to more recent intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction that overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s arsenal.

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[cspanlovr]

1. Vietnam Coverup

Watch Fog of War. The tape is clear, there was no attack.

[newyawker99]

2. Hi cspanlovr!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: