Fledermaus
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Fledermaus:
So you can check my facts below:
The Truth About Tonkin | Naval History Magazine - February 2008 Volume 22, Number 1
The USS Maddox was collecting sigint during military raids conducted by the South Vietnamese military under the command of General Westmorland and according to OpLan 34a. The Maddox had been present several days before when North Vietnamese PT boats had chased the South Vietnamese assault boats away from their attacks on North Vietnamese territory. The USS Maddox had sensibly withdrawn in order to not get mixed up in the cross fire. The US Navy and Air Force were also conducting regular air strikes against the North Vietnamese coast and islands and using ships like the Maddox to assess the effectiveness of the strikes at this time.
On August 2 another set of raids had gone in early that morning and the USS Maddox had picked up sigint that the North Vietnamese were preparing to sortie some boats in response. The captain then sensibly ordered the Maddox out of the area as a precautionary measure but then at 10:45 reversed his decision and started steaming back towards the North Vietnamese coast. The North Vietnamese PT boats took the bait and moved towards the Maddox's position. When the PT boats approached to a distance of 5 knots, (10,000 yards) the USS Maddox fired three rounds of 5" gunfire over the lead boat's bow as a warning. When the patrol boats did not change course fast enough the Maddox opened up with 3" and 5" fire galore. The Vietnamese patrol boats then attempted to close and launched at least four torpedoes in response to the US fire and fired 14.5 mm LCMG fire at the US Destroyer but then they high tailed out and sustained some damage doing so. Meanwhile the Maddox was expending several hundred rounds on the retreating North Vietnamese boats without much effect. Then it called in naval air strikes on the retreating boats by some Cruaders which further damaged the retreating PT boats.
The US Government intentionally misrepresented the facts of the Aug 2nd and the Aug. 4th incidents to other members of American Government, to the American people and to the international community. Thus the deception was key to how future events would unfold. The deception was what made the whole escapade a false flag operation against the American Congress and the American people.
The USS Maddox was thus the "switch" in a bait and switch routine involving US destroyers, US-provided South Vietnamese assault boats, South Vietnamese commandos, plus US strike aircraft and interceptors. The USS Maddox was effectively bait and the phantasmal attacks of August 4th coupled with the lying about both attacks sealed the fate of Vietnam. Five days later the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was drafted and passed in haste based on false information and the US was effectively at war with North Vietnam.
Here is a bit of primary source material that shows the lying in Congress by the Administration from the get go.
http://www.congressionaltimeline.org/Documents/88th_08101964_McNeilReport.pdf
Cheers.
Evilroddy.
You have yet to show the Maddox representing itself as anything but a US ship.
False Flags are intentional acts of deception in which the actor attacks a target with the hopes retaliation for the attack falls on someone else or to prevent retaliation upon the actor....
The Lavon Affair for example.
The Boston Tea Party can be called a false flag.