Cable Detailing Proof of Attack

INCOMING MESSAGE THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF SECRET PRECEDENCE (ACTION) PRECEDENCE (INFO) 18d FLASH FLASH Z 0711012 FM CINCPACFLT DECLASSIFIED Authority E.O. 11652 SEC. 5(A) and (D) TO RUHLHQ/CINCPAC By JB NARS, Date 4-28-76 INFO RUEKDA/JCS RUECW/CNO PROOF OF ATTACK (U) A. JCS 7770 D TG 061642Z NOTAL B. CINCPAC 061840Z NOTAL 1. IAW REF B, FOLLOWING INFO IS SUBMITTED FOR RESPONSE TO REF A: A. USS MADDOX (DD 731), WHILE ON PATROL IN THE GULF ON TONKIN, WAS ATTACKED AT 1508 GOLF ON 2 AUGUST BY THREE NORTH VIETNAMESE MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS. MADDOX WAS, AT THE TIME OF ATTACK, APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES FROM THE NEAREST LAND. DURING THIS UNPROVIKED ATTACK, THREE TORPEDOES WERE FIRED AT MADDOX. AL THOU TH NO TORPEDOES HIT MADDOX, ONE MACHINE GUN BULLET WAS OBSERVED HITTING THE SHIP. THIS BULLET WAS SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED FROM THE AMMUNITION MAGAZINE IN WHICH IT HAD LODGED AND WILL BE RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES AS EVIDENCE. MADDOX FIRED HER GUNES IN SELF DEFENSE AND WAS ABLE TO REPULSE THE ATTACKERS. MADDOX PROBABLY SANK ONE PT IN THIS ENGAGEMENT. THIS ATTACK HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE NORTH VIETNAMESE. B. AFTER THIS ATTACK, MADDOX REFUELED AND RETURNED TO THE PATROL IN THE GULF OF TONK IN IN COMPANY WITH USS TURNER JOY (DD 951). AT ABOUT 2108 GOLF ON 4 AUGUST, HEN MADDOX AND TURNER JOY WERE ON A SOUTHEASTERLY COURSE APPROXIMATELY 60 MILES FROM THE NOR TH VIETNAMESE THREE HIGH SPEED RADAR CONTACTS WERE DETECTED ABOUT 14 MILES 10 THE EASTWARD OF THE TWO SHIPS. AT 2119 GOLF THE CONTACTS, WHICH WERE DESPLAYED ON THE RADAR SCREENS OF BO TH SHIPS, INDICATED PROBABLE INFO CJCS-2 DJS-3 SJCS-1 J3-6 DIA-1 NMCC-2 CSA-2, CSAF-2 (CMC)-2 (WHITE HOUSE)- FILE-1 (25) so (STATE) (CIA) (NSA) REF B NOT HELD, WILL FURNISH ON REQUEST IF OBTAINABLE DUTY OFFICER PAGE OF PAGES MESSAGE M CITE NO. DTG WU/JBE KLH 1 3 0711017 AUG 64 "FORM NO, REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED SECRET