The Gulf of Tonkin incident, 40 years later [electronic resource] : flawed intelligence and the decision for war in Vietnam / edited by John Prados.

Title
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, 40 years later [electronic resource] : flawed intelligence and the decision for war in Vietnam / edited by John Prados.

Publication Information
[Washington, D.C.] : National Security Archive, [2004]-

General Note
Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 16, 2005).
 
"Posted August 4, 2004."
 
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
 
Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary
This electronic briefing book includes John Prados analysis of the intercepts, together with audio files and transcripts of the key Tonkin Gulf conversations between President Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, as well as photographs and charts from the Tonkin Gulf incident, a documentary chronology, a CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate on possible North Vietnamese responses to U.S. actions from May 1964, and links to other National Security Archive publications on Vietnam.

Subject Term
Tonkin Gulf Incidents, 1964
 
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States

Added Author
Prados, John

Added Corporate Author
National Security Archive (U.S.)

Electronic Access
http://www2.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/index.htm

Series Title
National Security Archive electronic briefing book

Series Sequence
National Security Archive electronic briefing book ; no. 132

OCLC Number
ocm57672365

Availability
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