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∙ 11y agoC
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∙ 11y agoto reduce the flow of communist supplies
That was called "Nixon's secret bombings" or "the secret bombing campaigns", or "the secret Cambodian bombings"; either way you weren't supposed to know about it!
President Nixon claimed that the leaks of US bombing attacks in Cambodia would be a continuing threat to US Security. In response to these leaks, Nixon hoped to stop future ones. Secret wiretaps were set on at least 13 members of the National Security Council and on at least four newspaper reporters.
Cambodia
When Nixon ordered further bombing of North Vietnam (Mainly Cambodia)
The longer secrecy dominated US actions in the war in Vietnam, the more leeway it seemed to give to the Nixon administration that it had the right to lie about the war. The details of the secret bombing of Cambodia was as follows:1. In the years of 1969-1970, 3600 B-52 bombing raids were conducted over Cambodia;2. The Defense Department falsified the air attack reports it furnished to the Senate Armed Services Committee; and3. The Nixon administration ended the campaign because it believed the bombing was a failure.
The North Vietnamese were using these countries as supply lines
to reduce the flow of communist supplies
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Un-officially, President Nixon used B-52's to bomb Laos & Cambodia. Officially, Nixon bombed North & South Vietnam with B-52s.
For a long time known as the secret war or secret bombing (no one was supposed to know about it). Amongst the targets were the Ho Chi Minh trail and a NVA Armored Regiment (equipped with PT76 Amphibious Light Tanks and possibly T-54/T-55 medium gun tanks) that was known to be operating in Laos/Cambodia; obviously awaiting orders from Hanoi to enter South Vietnam at some point.
Richard M. Nixon is not responsible for bringing troops home because he continued to escalate the Vietnam War through the secret bombing campaign in Cambodia and Laos. The withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam was later negotiated by Nixon's successor, President Gerald Ford.