Gulf of Tonkin incident event
also: the Gulf of Tonkin, false flag in Vietnam, Tonkin, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, first strike, Gulf of Tonkin affair, raid, attack, second Gulf of Tonkin incident, August 5th bombing of North Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin false flag
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Claims (4)
Lyndon B. Johnson funded
Gulf of Tonkin incident documented
“or 10 torpedoes, impelled Johnson to go to Congress and ask for the congressional action approved called the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7th, 1964. This resolution was then used to declare war in South Vietnam. McGeorge Bundy's immedi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Presidents_ Secret Wars Chap 13 @ 41:12
Lyndon B. Johnson lied_about
Gulf of Tonkin incident host_asserted
“You have Johnson announcing that the North Vietnamese had attacked the American fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin. There were hundreds of dead soldiers on the shores, and that this was an act of horrible aggression, and therefore we had to deploy…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2 @ 1:01:49
Viet Cong carried_out_attack
Gulf of Tonkin incident host_asserted
“The Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh, these forces have attacked our naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. There are hundreds of dead sailors on the shores of the Gulf. It's an outright act against, and we haven't done anything to provoke this attack, b…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 1:05:40
U.S. Navy covered_up
Gulf of Tonkin incident speculative
“wouldn't that be weird if they had computer systems back there that were classified that would have unequivocally told us that the false flag in the Gulf of Tonkin wasn't real because they could actually really track what ships were where?…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 59:41
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It talks about it being located and used in the Gulf of Tonkin. Now, wouldn't that be weird if they had computer systems back there that were classified that would have unequivocally told us that the false flag in the Gulf of Tonkin wasn't …
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Well, and his dad was I mean, his dad was a rear admiral in the Navy. He was he was very high up, was involved in some of the really dirty stuff. I mean, his dad was one of the leads involved in the in Tonkin, you know, that got us really i…
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This was being monitored by electronic defenses activated by the attack. The incident was sold to the American public as a first strike and resulted in Congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The resulting airstrikes against the Nor…
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or 10 torpedoes, impelled Johnson to go to Congress and ask for the congressional action approved called the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, August 7th, 1964. This resolution was then used to declare war in South Vietnam. McGeorge Bundy's immedi…
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At the same time, there are clues in the Pentagon Papers, i.e., that covert U.S. air ops against North Vietnam immediately preceded the Tonkin Gulf incident, which justify greater emphasis on the role of covert air and ground forces in Camb…
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The Pentagon Papers indicated that the Hawks had the support of Director McComb, but kept other key administration in the dark. McNamara in particular claimed he was ignorant, which I find ridiculous. Even while he released the order for Au…
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August 1st and 2nd probably took place as the North Vietnamese had claimed, but McNamara ended up denying that they even occurred, which was patently ridiculous. In like manner, the overt U.S. intervention in Cambodia in 1970, although vita…
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And so that's kind of the breakdown of how that whole thing worked. We just have a little bit more in. If a single minded class explanation of U.S. policy was adequate, then there would have been no need for intelligence conspiracies. No La…
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Yes. So let's just start with the key false flag attacks in my life that nobody can dispute right now. First of all, the Gulf of Tonkin incident that brought us into Vietnam. Well, Johnson appears on national TV. And unfortunately, I'm old …
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You have Johnson announcing that the North Vietnamese had attacked the American fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin. There were hundreds of dead soldiers on the shores, and that this was an act of horrible aggression, and therefore we had to deploy…
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It started to mount and mount and mount. But everything came to a peak with the Gulf of Tonkin affair. Suddenly, LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson, appeared on national TV, and he said, I have an earth-shaking announcement to make. We have to become i…
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The Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh, these forces have attacked our naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. There are hundreds of dead sailors on the shores of the Gulf. It's an outright act against, and we haven't done anything to provoke this attack, b…
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But they knew that the Vietnam War was bullshit. And they were having such a detrimental effect on crafting a narrative that the CIA wanted all of us to believe. Oh, my God, we got attacked because it worked in World War Two. Right. It work…
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A raid by fast, heavily armed swift boats attacking North Vietnamese facilities on the islands of Han My and Han Nhu in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Han My raid coincided with another U.S. intelligence activity, a De Soto patrol in the Gulf. De …
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A raid by fast, heavily armed swift boats attacking North Vietnamese facilities on the islands of Han My and Han Nhu in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Han My raid coincided with another U.S. intelligence activity, a De Soto patrol in the Gulf. De …
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The destroyer Maddox was on a DeSoto patrol when swift boats passed her, the 34A Raiders returning to base. That evening, the Maddox steamed past the recently shelled islands. The North Vietnamese sent out torpedo boats, which attacked the …
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The destroyer Maddox was on a DeSoto patrol when swift boats passed her, the 34A Raiders returning to base. That evening, the Maddox steamed past the recently shelled islands. The North Vietnamese sent out torpedo boats, which attacked the …
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with one sunk and the other damaged. President Johnson then deliberately ordered the Maddox back to the Gulf of Tonkin, accompanied by another destroyer, C. Turner Joy. Two nights later, the two destroyers mistook, this is the infamous Gulf…
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with one sunk and the other damaged. President Johnson then deliberately ordered the Maddox back to the Gulf of Tonkin, accompanied by another destroyer, C. Turner Joy. Two nights later, the two destroyers mistook, this is the infamous Gulf…
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You can buy the story that it was a mistake or it was a false flag in order to justify us getting more involved in Vietnam. There's an argument to be made on both sides of that that I have read a lot about. I come down on the side of false …
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You can buy the story that it was a mistake or it was a false flag in order to justify us getting more involved in Vietnam. There's an argument to be made on both sides of that that I have read a lot about. I come down on the side of false …
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the legislature approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Johnson then relied on that for a declaration of war. McGeorge Bundy immediately got involved with DeSoto. As a reconnaissance project, DeSoto patrols were approved by the special grou…
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Burning Sun, that's what it was called, collection mission, and modified the closest point of approach to enemy territory plan for another. Peripheral flights around Cuba, missions over North Korea, electronic intelligence tickler flights a…
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Pressures against North Vietnam as well as cross-border patrols into Cambodia, Laos, and North Vietnam. Makes you wonder if they were apprised of sending in that special forces team for Red Rock where it was a dead-end mission and they were…
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covert financing that was being ran out of there, the narco network, the fact that the Corsican mafia was involved, blah, blah, blah. And then you have the Gulf of Tonkin incident that generated the next phase of that. So at the end, the fi…
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Ted Shackley from Vietnam to Tucker Carlson. Most Americans consider the Vietnam War to have begun in August of 1964 with the alleged attack on the North Vietnamese patrol boats from them to the USS Maddow in what became known as the Gulf o…
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And, of course, led to the Gulf of Tonkin false flag, leading to the death of 55,000 American servicemen and more than a million Vietnamese. And what did Nixon come to believe had happened in the 60 election? Well, he wrote about it in his …