Concept

OPLAN 34A

U.S.-run program of covert maritime raids on the North Vietnamese coast, carried out by South Vietnamese forces in 1964.

2 links, 1 backed by primary records

How each side tells it

Connections 2

Proof 2 sources

Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964 (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 2000/Spring 2001; approved for release 3 Nov 2005), National Security Agency, 2001. Primary record
We have seen that the Gulf of Tonkin incidents occurred as a result of the congruence of the Desoto patrols and the maritime commando raids along the North Vietnamese coast carried out under OPLAN 34A.
LBJ Tapes on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (transcripts and notes by John Prados, from The White House Tapes, 2003), National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 132, National Security Archive, George Washington University, 2003. Scholarship & press
And following twenty-four hours after that, with this destroyer in that same area, undoubtedly led them to connect the two events.

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