i know a few pirate radio people. you can continue for a very long time doing that if you move around...but more generally, you're right in that you have to be looking to find anything.
the tonkin reference was more general...you know, manufactured incident.
thing is that i see little way around host's take on it above--a kind of fumbled p.r. event conocted to add a little drama to bush-posturings in the region.
not as "real" as tonkin was, obviously--a kind of parallel.
this is is most curious and i'm kinda looking forward to gathering more information about it. and it is bizarrely difficult to find any--i just paged through about 40 ppg of links, almost all of which were repeats of the same two or three wire service stories.
one strange tidbit from somewhere claims that this character has been silent since the late 1990s...trying a different tack, but i now smell wholesale fabrication, too.
and while i normally do not link bogs--i mean, who the hell knows who's writing them?---this cat:
http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/
argues that there is no filippino monkey....
a hall of mirrors.