Vietnam War Secrets documentary series DVD

Viet-Nam War Archive announces Vietnam War Secrets, an eleven hour documentary series plus a comprehensive event timeline and many formerly classified documents from the United States Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been nationally released by Navarre Corporation and is available online at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, bn.com, bestbuy.com and borders.com. Also, the four DVD series will soon be sold in Best Buy and Borders stores.

Vietnam War Secrets focuses on the many secrets relating to the conflict and is based on many recently declassified documents, audio recordings and films. For example, the true story is revealed about the famous Gulf of Tonkin incidents during August 2 and 4, 1964, which led to the U.S. Congress passing the so-called Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which gave certain "war powers" to President Lyndon Johnson in order to protect U.S. military personnel from attacks off northern Viet-Nam.

However, for many years and in many history books including the official history by the U.S. Navy, the true story was never told. Then during December 2005, after many delays, the U.S. National Security Agency, which is part of the Department of Defense, released it's secret history of the event and disclosed that no U.S. Navy ships were attacked during August 4th. How does the NSA know, you might ask.

Well, the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy were conducting secret "Desoto" spy missions for the National Security Agency and the ships were carrying special electronic communications huts manned by US Navy personnel supervised by NSA officials, solely to intercept North Vietnamese communications.

Moreover, President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara forgot to tell Congress that the Navy ships were conducting the 17th Desoto mission. Plus, they forgot to tell Congress and the American people that during the same time, the CIA was seperately conducting secret covert sabotage missions known as "Oplan 34A" against North Vietnamese radio transmitters on off-shore islands. The raids were conducted by Swift boats operating from Da Nang in southern Viet-Nam and staffed with Vietnamese mercenaries, trained, armed, paid and directed by CIA officers.

The so-called 34-Alpha raids were specifically aimed at antagonizing the North Vietnamese Security forces so the NSA could identify the North Viet communications networks during an military alert.

The NSA investigation is now available online at the NSA website which is open to the public.

Edward Rasen, the producer and host of Vietnam War Secrets, also points out that when a similar incident occured in the same area one month later, President Johnson did not order a military response and dismissed such saying "those dumb sailors were probably shooting at flying fish." Obviously, he knew the earlier incident was bogus and also did not have much faith in U.S. Navy personnel.