This up-to-date and informative CD-ROM provides a unique and complete collection of documents about Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin incident with newly declassified National Security Agency (NSA) documents, signals intelligence, histories and reports. These reports provide important new information on this controversy. In late 2005, the National Security Agency (NSA) released the first installment of previously classified information regarding the Vietnam era, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This release includes a variety of articles, chronologies of events, oral history interviews, signals intelligence (SIGINT) reports and translations, and other related memoranda. The Gulf of Tonkin incident, like others in our nation's history, has become the center of considerable controversy and debate. It is not NSA's intention to prove or disprove any one set of conclusions, many of which can be drawn from a thorough review of this material. Instead, through this and subsequent public releases, we intend to make as much information as possible available for the many scholars, historians, academia, and members of the general public who find interest in analyzing the information and forming their own conclusions. Chronologies of Events * Miscellaneous Memoranda and Notes * Material relating to proposed "History of Southeast Asia" article by NSA Historian William Gerhard, circa 1972 * Articles * Oral History Interviews * Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Reports (R) and Translations (T) Mar 64 - Oct 64 * Related Command and Technical Messages from 02 Aug 64 to 26 Aug 64. In all, the disc has over 17,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD. As a bonus, this disc also includes a virtual federal reference bookshelf of 18 vital and interesting core federal documents with extraordinary material: HISTORIC AND FOUNDING DOCUMENTS - Constitution with Index, Declaration of Independence; Constitution as amended with Unratified Amendments and Analytical Index; Pocket Version; Emancipation Proclamation 1863. GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS AND CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS - How Laws are Made House of Representatives; Management Challenges Facing the New Administration; American Government; Minutes of the Senate Democratic Conference 1903-1964 Minutes of the Senate Republican Conference 1911-1964. U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUALS - Complete reproductions from 1997 through the brand-new 2005-06 edition (nine documents). As the official handbook of the Federal Government, The United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. Our CD-ROMs are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool.
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Our CD-ROMs are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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The information on this cd-rom is not very well organized. Many of the links are broken. You are better off saving your money and doing goggle searches. Any one who had done any research in this area could find this info on the internet and in a more useful form. There is a need for compilations of declassified documents. It is a shame that those who did this disk did not take more care. IT has one large file of the documents of interest. There are many files that can only be called "filler." If they split up the Vietnam files it would be more user friendly. No one who has done any serious research would put together a a disk in this way.I thought that they compilers of this disk would have spent a little more time making the information easier to use. Many of the menus in the large files are just the numbers that the various agencies used to file these documents. This is not useful. For the amount that was charged for this cd-rom they should have taken more care.
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Background, Basics, No Conclusions,
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This CD has lots of basic documents, such as a transcript of the U.S. Constitution, and it has photocopies of U.S. military and naval correspondence from 1964. If you study each transcript of correspondence, then you might be able to determine a basic outline of what happened, despite inconsistencies between what different servicemen reported. What is missing is information on how Washington's leaders were handling all of this.
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go ASA & NSA,
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i found this very interesting and accurate. I was stationed at Phu Bi 8th Field Station. Enjoyed reading this 100%. It also showed how difficult it is when intercepting traffice, very easy to misinturpret.
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