> So there is this deep suspicion that somehow Truman and Acheson
> *tricked* Kim Il Sung, Stalin, and Mao into providing this excuse for
> NATO and for a U.S. defense budget of 10% of GDP.
>
> But it is hard for who has actually worked for a government to
> believe that such a cross-continental black deception operation could
> have actually been carried out...
>
Ever heard of Tonkin Gulf?...
Seth