Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964

Government Record · Tier 1 — Primary Document · National Security Agency (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly) · 2000

An internal NSA history by agency historian Robert J. Hanyok, published in the classified Cryptologic Quarterly and declassified in 2005. It concludes that the second reported attack on U.S. ships, on the night of August 4, 1964, never happened.

First, it is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that no attack happened that night.

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