max taylor had gone to the pentagon but he kept this.and he sent his staff over to the senior staff meeting to make sure that he, max taylor, knew what they were doing. these notes were taken by an air force major named billy smith. he went on to be a four-star general. he is sitting in that staff meeting the morning after. thate night before, he had series of intercepts, torpedoes, the decision to bomb. the bombers have gone off guam. north vietnam taking a huge pummeling. they come in early morning staff meeting. george bundy, national security advisor is presiding. then he says, we actually have less, there was a lot more uncertainty. we have less information this morning and we had last night. attack,ys, on the first the evidence would be pretty good. on the second one, the amount of evidence we have today is less than we had yesterday. "this resulted primarily from correlating its and pieces of information eliminating double counting and mistaken signals." less information today and you already bomb them. firstting in on his staff m