Gulf of Tonkin NSA history: full transcription
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This document isn’t an isolated case. It’s the same institutional habit the record shows repeating for eighty years.
Build the capability quietly. Use it at a scale the public never approved. Account for it only once a court forces the paperwork into daylight. The Classified Record traces that exact pattern from a 1946 screening memo to the 3.4 million warrantless searches the FBI ran in a single year, using the government’s own documents, not speculation.
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Only information that supported the claim that the communists had attacked the two destroyers was given to Johnson administration officials, in such a manner as to preclude responsible decision makers in the Johnson administration from having the complete and objective narrative of events.
As much as anything else, it was an awareness that President Johnson would brook no uncertainty that could undermine his position.
This transcription covers the study's central conclusion and its account of how intelligence was selectively presented. The full declassified release includes nearly 200 documents and Johnson Library tape transcripts, released by the NSA in installments beginning November 30, 2005.
Study: "Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish." Robert J. Hanyok, NSA. Declassified November 30, 2005.
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