Operation Plan 34A operation
also: O-Plan 34A, O-Plan 34, Leaping Lena, L-E-N-A, O-Plan 34-A, 34A, 34-A, 34A operation
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Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Operation Plan 34A documented
“like the Plan 6 strikes against North Vietnam, for which Walt Rostow had argued in 1961. Four days after assuming office, LBJ approved National Security Action Memorandum 273, which called for a study of different levels of increased activi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 34:04
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The directive also called for planning and conducting military operations into Laos and many measures in South Vietnam. The Pentagon planners came up with O-Plan 34-A, which Johnston immediately approved. The requirement for deniability imm…
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to organize a studies and observation group called the SOG, S-O-G, as Unconventional Warfare Task Force in January 64. Among the 34A operations, which were carried out by air and sea, was the delivery of propaganda leaflets that were airdro…
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when it arrived in the North Vietnamese coast to find four swift boats passing her on a southerly heading. The 34A Raiders returning to base. That evening, the Maddox was offshore of the islands that were recently shelled. In response, the …
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Both DeSoto patrols and the 34-A operations were temporarily halted while Washington debated the policy. The Joint Chiefs of Staff argued for open military action bombing North Vietnam and relaxing the rules of engagement of actual combat m…
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He favored action, but only after waiting until December to see if the Vietnamese political situation stabilized. Like Kennedy before him, LBJ accepted other recommendations involving less than maximum options. To resume the DeSoto patrols …
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Thus, operations like DeSoto and 34-A, which could be considered provocative, were suddenly approved not on the merits, but on alternatives to even greater provocation. President Johnson specifically approved resumption of the naval patrols…