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67.fS1 CINCPACFLT, 021104Z August 1964.
68.~CTU 72.1.2, 021443Z (Genser).
69.iStDesoto OPSUM, 021443ZAugust 1964.
70.~ Wright, 12.
71. (8//SI) 2/Q/VHN/T126-64, 0304S0Z August
1964.
72. (SHSI) 2/Q/VHN/T131-64, OS0834Z August
1964.
73. (8//81) 2/Gll/VHN/R07-64 August 1964.
74. fflJuly/August Desoto SITSUM (3) 030745Z
August 1964 GENSER.
7S.-(8//S13- 2/Q/VHN/R32-64 031008Z August
1964.
76. (:5//81) 2/Q/VHN/T144-64 080234Z August
1964.
77. (SHSI) 2/Q/VHN/T142-64 080228Z August
1964; (U) Marolda, 421.
78. (TS//SI) OlC USN-467N, "July-August 1964
Desoto Patrol SIGINT Observations Report," USNSGA
Ser 000323 August 1964.
79. (U) Marolda, 423; (S) CTG 72.1 "July-August
Desoto SITSUM," 03140SZ August 1964; (S/lSI)
2/Q/VHN/R32-64 031008Z August 1964.
80. (S//SI) 2/Q/VHN/T146-64 080314Z August
1964.
81. (S//SI) 2/Q/VHN/T1S1-64 080324Z August
1964.
82. (S//81) Critic USN-414T, 04111SZ August
1964.
83. (8//81) 2/Gll/VHN/Rll-64, 041140Z, August
1964.
84. (S) CTU 77.12, 041240Z.
8S. (U) Normally, the surface radars would detect
targets out to the horizon. The detection of returns at
such a distance as the Maddox reported suggests the
influence of weather conditions which were known to
produce false returns. See Moise, lOS-109. (S//SI) An
interesting speculation emerged after Captain
Herrick's initial radar contact placed the suspect boats
so far to the northeast of his position that these craft
could have been Chinese Communist naval vessels on
patrol from nearby Hainan Island.
86. (U) Moise, 123.
87. (U) Moise, 127; Marolda, 429.
88. (U) Moise, 71.
89. (U) Ibid., 126.
90. (U) Ibid., 127.
91. (U) Joseph C. Goulden, Truth is the First
Casualty (New York: James B. Adler Inc., 1969), 146.
92. (U) Ibid., 143.
93. (U) Moise, 129, 160.
94. (U) Goulden, 144.
9S. (U) Moise, 144.
96.~Desoto Action SITREP, Z 0417S4Z August
1964.
97. -fSt CTU 77.12 "Attack on Desoto Final
SITREP," 042158 August 1964, CCH Series vn, Box
13.
98. CU) Moise, 211-212; Robert Divine, Since 1945:
Politics and Diplomacy in Recent American History
(New York: Alfred Knoff, 1985 (Third edition)), 139.
99. (U) Moise, 209; John Schulzinger, A Time for
War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1997), lSI.
100. fSt "Memorandum for Mr. Bundy," 23, 10
August 1964, from LBJ Library, CCH Series Vll l, Box
13, Gulf of Tonkin, "Vietnam War Records." (U) See
also "Telephone conversation between Secretary
McNamara and Admiral Sharp." 4 August 1964,
David M. Barrett, editor, Lyndon B..Johnson's
Vietnam papers (College Station, TX: Texas A&M
University Press, 1997), 63-6S.
101. ~Ibid.
102. i8t CTU 77.12 Desoto, Final SITREP, Z
0421S8Z August 1964.
103. t6*CTG 77.S, Desoto Patrol SITREP Nr 8., Z
041928Z August 1964.
104. (S//SI) 2/0/VHN/TlO-64, 041559Z August
1964; also, portions quoted in 3/0/VHN/ROl-64.
lOS. ~ "Memorandum for Mr. Bundy," 24;
McNamara, 134.
106. CU) Lyndon B.. Johnson, 114-l1S.
107. (TS//SI) 3/0/VHN/ROl-64, S August 1964.
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