Gene Poteat on the Gulf of Tonkin incident: a non-existent attack that escalated a war

Gene Poteat, former Senior Scientific Adviser, CIA talks about: what the Gulf of Tonkin incident was; how the CIA was asked to investigate it and why; the conclusions the CIA drew on whether there was a torpedo boat attack; and his conversations with the crew about what happened years later.

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All those lives lost and for what?
Mainly just to uphold the hubris of empire and global hegemony.