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included the insertion of commando teams by boat and parachute. These raids were unsuccessful.
The US then engaged in assaults from boats with “81-mm mortars, 4.5-inch rockets, and
recoilless rifles.” The primary mission was sabotage but they raked buildings with machine gun
fire undoubtedly killing North Vietnamese soldiers. These were CIA missions. On July 31, 1964,
the US attacked the North Vietnamese with four PTF boats in two different location. “Within
days, Hanoi lodged a complaint with the International Control Commission (ICC), which had
been established in 1954 to oversee the provisions of the Geneva Accords. The United States
denied involvement.”
The Maddox had been patrolling 4-miles off the North Vietnamese coast collecting
electronic intelligence. On August 2, 1964, five North Vietnamese patrol boats, “P-4 torpedo
boats and Swatows” approached the Maddox. Naval History magazine states: “It is difficult to
imagine that the North Vietnamese could come to any other conclusion than that the” Maddox
was a part of the operation that was launching attacks on them. “When the enemy boats closed to
less than 10,000 yards, the destroyer fired three shots across the bow of the lead vessel. In
response, the North Vietnamese boat launched a torpedo.” In the fight that resulted, at least three
North Vietnamese patrol boats were damaged and another sunk.
Another incident occurred with the US Destroyer Turner Joy on the evening of 4 August.
“Today, it is believed that this second attack did not occur and was merely reports from jittery
radar and sonar operators, but at the time it was taken as evidence that Hanoi was raising the
stakes against the United States.”
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Some believe that this second event was purely fabricated.
As a result of these provoked incidents. Congress authorized military action in Vietnam and
many American citizens supported it.
During the war approximately 19 million gallons of a herbicidal defoliant commonly
known as Agent Orange were used in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. About 6-million acres
were sprayed in Vietnam alone. This included the direct aerial spraying of 3,181 villages which
contained some 2.1 to 4.8 million people. Many of the areas sprayed were never directly
involved in any military action.
Agent Orange and at least four other herbicidal defoliants used in Vietnam contained
dioxins. Dioxins are very persistent in both the environment and the human body. They are
recognized as strong carcinogens and teratogens. Carcinogens are substances which cause
cancer. The specific dioxin associated with Agent Orange, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-
dioxin (TCDD), is “frequently associated with soft-tissue sarcoma, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,
Hodgkin's disease and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.” Teratogens are substances that cause the
“development of congenital malformations — misleadingly called birth-defects.” The literal
Greek meaning of the word is “monster-making.” Dioxins don't only affect those exposed but
also their children and grandchildren.
“Diseases with limited evidence of an association with Agent Orange are respiratory
cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, Porphyria cutanea tarda (a type of skin disease),
acute and subacute transient peripheral neuropathy, spina bifida, Type 2 diabetes, and acute
myelogenous leukemia found only in the second or third generation.” There are many other
diseases thought to be associated but with inadequate or insufficient evidence.
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The CIA used the war to initiate the Phoenix program. According to a former Phoenix
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