This just in: Gulf of Tonkin fake
From the “Duh” department:
Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks
North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the war.But he said that probably the “most historically significant feature” of the declassified report was the retelling of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.
That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to president Lyndon Johnson’s sharp escalation of American forces in Vietnam.
The author of the report “demonstrates that not only is it not true, as (then US) secretary of defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was ‘unimpeachable,’ but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that ‘no attack happened that night,’” FAS said in a statement.
</em>How convenient that this story gets reported the same day as this:
Iranian TV: Pentagon video, audio fake
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Wednesday called video and audio released by the Pentagon showing Iranian Revolutionary Guards boats confronting U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz “fabricated,” a state-run television station reported. “The footage released by the U.S. Navy was compiled using file pictures and the audio has been fabricated,” the English-language channel Press TV quoted an official in the Revolutionary Guards as saying.
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