"In 1964 two American destroyers engaged three North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. The result was sweeping public support for aggressive military action against North Vietnam. Congress then passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, granting authority to give military assistance to any Southeast Asian country threatened by communist aggression. In 2005, an internal NSA historical study was declassified which concluded that there was no North Vietnamese vessel present during the incident. The report stated “It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened- it is that no attack happened that night…” The Golf of Tonkin incident never happened. The NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policymakers."
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