Kamis, 23 Maret 2017

The Vinh Window and the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Code-breakers enabled U.S. spies to peer into the communications centers of the North Vietnamese, but then problems arose. THROUGHOUT MUCH OF THE WAR, AMERICAN code-breakers intercepted North Vietnam- ese radio transmissions of planned actions along the Ho Chi Minh Trail—perhaps the National Security Agency’s greatest contribution during the war. President Lyndon B. Johnson certainly thought …

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