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forty-five minutes after the report was issued. They
included the original Vietnamese text. These supplements
were sent to a small audience of only SIGINTproducing
elements. The supplements probably were
what the B26 crisis center used in generating the afteraction
report, "T-lO."
(S//Sf) As a general practice, once the technical
supplements were received, they were attached to the
original reports. A review of the NSA archival file containing
the San Miguel reports issued in 1964 revealed
that reports in the preceding and following series have
their supplements attached, while the two reports in
questions stand alone, sans supplements.
143. (8//8f) 2/Q/VHN/T163-64, 080522Z August
1964; as reported in 2/Q/VHN/R38-64, 041632Z
August 1964. The text of "R38" was "at 041554Z
Swatow-class PGM T-142 reported to My Due
(19"52'N, 105"57'E) that an
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enemy aircraft was
observed falling into the sea. Enemy vessel perhaps
wounded." The translation quoted on page 210 was of
the full Vietnamese text that would have appeared in
the missing Technical Supplement.
144. (S/lSI) Ibid.
145. (U) Moise, 106.
146. (~//~I) 2/Gll/VHN/RlO-64, 040850Z
August 1964.
147. (U) Moise, 199-200.
148. (T8//~I) Oral History interview withl I
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General Gordon Blake, 4.
149. (TS//Sn Blake Oral History, 9:
150. (D) Moise, 197.
151. (18//8I) Johnson, 522.
152. ('fs//snl IOral History; Oral History
Interview with Milt Zaslow, OH17-93.
153. (8//SI)1 pralHistory.
154.(8//8'0 Ibid.
155. {''f8//'Sf) See 3/0/VHN/R01-64, Spot Report
4 August 1964; 3/0/VHN/R02-64, 060102Z August
1964; and 3/0/VHN/R03-64, 061604Z August 1964.
156. ("fS//8i)1 IOral History, 8; Zaslow
Oral History, 33735.
157. (rfS//SI, Blake Oral History, 12.
IS8./(U) For comments about the various informants,
doubters and notes on the contradictory reports,
see Moise,241-243; Galloway, 105-107; Karnow, 373-
375; Alexander Haig, Inner Circles (New York:
Warner), 122-123; Goulden, 207-210; and George
McT, Kahin, Intervention: How America Became
Involved in Vietnam (NY: Alfred Knopf, 1986), 219­
227.
159. (U) Moise, 241-243.
160. (S//Sf) HQ NSAPAC 080105Z August 1964;
William Gerhard, Untitled Notes on Gulf of Tonkin,
CCH Series XII.NN (1970).
161. (U) Marolda, 443.
162. (TS//Sf) DIRNSA File, "Gulf of Tonkin, Both
Incidents," CCH Series VI.24.6.
163. (T8//81) OIC USN-467N.
164. (8//Sf) DIRNAVSECGRUPAC 241832Z
August 1963.
165. (S//Sf) 2/0/VHN/Tll-64, 061656Z August
1964. A curious archival sidenote to this translation.
When this historian reviewed the original NCA accession
of NSA-issued translations of DRV naval intercept,
this one translation was missing. A copy was
found in the files on the Tonkin Gulf incidents held by
the Center for Cryptologic History. A copy was then
placed in the NCA file.
166. fTS//8J,f3/0jVHN/ROI-64, 050130Z August
1964 NCAACC# 45359Z.
167.~ See the following: JCS messages, 041610Z
August 1964; 041830Z August 1964; 041811Z August
1964; and 041754ZAugust 1964, Desoto Action Sitrep.
168. {''f8//80 Spot Report 3/0/VHN/R03-64
August 1964 NCAACC# 45359Z.
169. (T8//S1 NSA Command Center record of
Events, 6 August 1964, NCAACC# 45582.
170. (T~//~I) 3/0jVHN/R01-64.
171. (U//~I) 3/0/VHN/ROI-64, 5 August 1964.
172. (8//~I) 2/Q/VHS/R36-64 031212Z August
1964; USN-27 Tech Supplement to same, 031236Z
August 1964.
173. (S//SO Ibid. Also, Desoto SITSUM 5,
030745Z Genser August 1964; and 3/0/VHS/R38-64
DRV MERSUM 3-9 August 1964.
174. (S/;'Sf) Ibid.
175. (T8//81) Spot Report 3/0/VHN/#03-64, 6
August 1964.
176. (T8//81) Blake Oral History, 7.
177. (S//8n 2/Q/VHN/T154-64, 080328Z August
1964.
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