The Lacuna Project

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Exhibit 378

Vietnam Study, Casting Doubts, Remains Secret (excerpt)

Exhibit 378 ยท News report

Vietnam Study, Casting Doubts, Remains Secret (excerpt)

fearful that it might prompt uncomfortable comparisons with the flawed intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq, according to an intelligence official familiar with some internal discussions of the matter.

Reports that NSA kept Hanyok's finding secret since 2001, that Hanyok concluded mid-level officers deliberately skewed evidence to cover earlier errors, and that higher NSA officials feared comparisons with Iraq intelligence.

Source
New York Times (Scott Shane), via History News Network
Date
31 October 2005
Quoted from
HNN excerpt of Shane, NYT, 31 Oct 2005, paragraph 3
Grade
Reported
Document
https://hnn.us/roundup/entries/17620.html
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Attributes the motive to an unnamed intelligence official.

Cited by

Finding DEF-2.2
Primary record Hanyok found that "The withheld information constituted nearly 90 percent of all available SIGINT" and that "only SIGINT that supported the claim that the communists had attacked the two destroyers was given to administration officials."