Moise and Prados on page 1 NYT today about Tonkin

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well, at the end of the continuation of the story on A16.

In an internal report that remains secret, Internal National Security

Agency historians have specified details that would further Edwin

Moise's account of the perception of the Gulf of Tonkin incidents by US

intelligence (Tonkin Gulf and the escalation of the Vietnam War / Edwin

E. Moïse, UNC Press, 1996).

Robert J. Hanyoks's reading of NSA archives suggests that someone

fiddled with incoming data to cover up a mistake, immediately after it

was made, before Johnson went to Congress.

John Prados, of the National Security archive, and Moise both told the

NYT they would like to know more. Robert McNamara who relied on the

doctored data says the whole record should be published.

NSA has been dragging its feet to avoid untoward comparisons to the present.

"Doubts Cast on Vietnam Incident by Secret Study Stays Classified" by

Scott Shane. NYT October 31, 2005, page 1 and A16.