The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

in sight. The next day, the plan was to retaliate against North Viet-
nam, even though the destroyers never suffered an enemy attack.
This was told by the fighter pilot Jim Stockdale, who was present at
the time.
As early as 7 August 1964, President Lyndon Johnson got the
authority from Congress to use American troops against the commu-
nist attack. In March 1965, American troops landed in South Viet-
nam. In the autumn of 1965, the United States involved other
countries in the conflict.
In spite of an ever-increasing American presence, the communists
kept pressing further south. At the end of 1968, 543 000 American
soldiers were fighting in Vietnam. According to the Soviet-Estonian
encyclopaedia, Soviet support to the communists in the north
covered 70 % of the cost of war. In 1973, Moscow announced that
this was not due for repayment.
The United States merely intended to extend the conflict, and US
played a foul game. Robert McNamara (CFR), Kennedy's secretary of
defense at the beginning of the Vietnam War and later head of the
World Bank, openly admitted that the United States never really
tried to win the war. It was a disaster for millions of people.
When the communists seized Saigon, the Secretary General of the
Vietnamese Communist Party, Le Duan, said that the standard of
living in South Vietnam must be lowered. He stressed that the people
in the south had "achieved a standard of living too high for the
country's economy". This would mean the opposite of a happy and
civilized life. In January 1977, there were already 200 000 political
prisoners in Vietnam (Paul Johnson, "Modern Times", New York,
1983).
On 18 March 1969, pressurized by President Richard Nixon's
Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, the United States launched an
attack on Cambodia with B-52 bombers from high altitude in order to
"demolish the NLF bases" there. Each of the planes dropped some
thirty tons of bombs. The intensive bombing went on for fourteen
months. More sporadic attacks continued until 15 August 1973, when
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