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Folder, "[Records of Actions, National Security Council Meetings, August 4, 11, 1964]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • a. Agreed to specific reprisals by U. S. aircraft against North Vietnam bases as recommended by the Secretary of Defense. b. Noted an estimate by the Director of Central Intelligence covering North Vietnam and Chinese Communist military and political
  • Vietnam
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Gulf of Tonkin Attack, 8/4/1964, Volume 3, Tab 20," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • Secreta r y ?vlcNama r a : W e h av e agree d to ai r strik e s on two bases in the north of No rth Vietnam and t w o base c o mple x es in the south of North Vietnam . A fi:th target has be e n deleted b e cause it i s clo s e t o Communist Ch ina . b
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Attack in Gulf of Tonkin; Cyprus, 8/4/1964, Volume 3, Tab 19," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • consisting of two U . S . destroyers , the Maddox and the C. Turner Joy, approximately 6 5 miles off North Vietnam in the Gulf 'of Tonkin . Presently we believe 9 or 10 torpedoes were fired at the Patrol. Two of the PT boats were r eportedly sunk and three