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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