The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a pair of alleged attacks by North Vietnamese gunboats on two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS C. Turner Joy, in August of 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. Later research, including a report released in 2005 by the National Security Agency, indicates that the second attack did not occur.
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Government Documents Released by the NSA
- Chronologies of Events
- Miscellaneous Memoranda and Notes
- Material relating to proposed "History of Southeast Asia" article by NSA Historian William Gerhard, circa 1972
- Articles
- Oral History Interviews
- Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Reports (R) and Translations (T) Mar 64 - Oct 64
- Related Command and Technical Messages from 02 Aug 64 to 26 Aug 64