Published at: 10/09/2025 09:00 PM

(El Nacional and La Extra, August 4, 5 and 6, 1964)

• The misleading news of an alleged torpedo boat attack by the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam, carried out on August 3, 1964 on the battleship USS Maddox of the North American Navy, anchored in that country's territorial waters, in Tonkin Bay, was a false-flag operation organized by the intelligence services of the United States, to use it as a pretext and obtain the authorization of Congress to bomb that country.
• From the recordings and declassified documents, it was revealed how President Lyndon B. Johnson personally constructed, together with his advisors, the Vietnam torpedo boat attack against the American battleship that prowled the waters of Southeast Asia.
• The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used rigged videos as evidence of that attack and these served as a pretext for Johnson to ask Congress for a large expansion of military missions and begin a massive US intervention against Vietnam, when it went from 60,000 soldiers to 500,000 at the time of greater intensity of the conflict.
• The bombings continued until 1971, and were intensified by the Nixon administration. During this period, the United States threw 7.5 million tons of explosives, 400,000 tons of Napalm and hundreds of other tons of Agent Orange, causing the death of 3 million Vietnamese.
• During that period, Ho Chi Minh's troops, under the command of General Vo Nguyen Giap, managed to shoot down 922 American warplanes in combat and caused the loss of 63,000 marines.

ANOTHER FORGOTTEN FALSE FLAG “MADE IN USA”: THE EXPLOSION OF THE BATTLESHIP USS MAINE

• On February 15, 1898, at 9:40 at night, a violent explosion was heard in the Bay of Havana. The bow of the battleship Maine disappeared in pieces, and in a matter of minutes it sank along with its 254 crew members. The United States blamed Spain, but in reality, that conspiracy theory was fabricated by the US government itself to seek a pretext and declare war against that country.
• Behind all this macabre war operation, was the communications magnate William Randolph Hearts, who months earlier had given orders to his reporters in Havana: “You play the news, I play the war.”
• Coincidentally, that night the high official and some of the battleship's sailors were not on board the vessel. Two days earlier, the Maine had entered the port of Havana Bay at dawn without giving prior notification of its arrival to the port authorities and refusing to comply with previous protocols for entry into Cuban territorial waters. Its officers barred local authorities from inspecting the ship.
• William Randolph Hearst went down in history as the intellectual author and main instigator of the American war against Spain in 1898, for which he used his vast network of newspapers and magazines to infest anti-Hispanic fake news, in the warmongering spirit of the United States.
• As a result of the Spanish defeat, the United States militarily occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam, the last overseas possessions of the humiliated Spain.

Mazo News Team