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Table of Contents; List of Illustrations ; Preface to the Second Edition ; Acknowledgments; 1. Roll In On Target; 2. The Two-Month Crisis ; 3. Why Was the Liberty in Harms Way? ; 4. The Liberty Targeted; 5. The Air and Sea Attacks; 6. In the Aftermath ; 7. Friendly Fire Kills ; 8. Survivors Perceptions ; 9. Conspiracy Theories; 10. Tall Tales vs. Reality ; 11. Did Dayan Order It? ; 12. America Investigates; 13. Israel Investigates; 14. Televisions Perspective; 15. Red Herrings and Myths; 16. Confirmation: National Security Agency Intercepts; 17. Confirmation: The Mythical Submarine.;Cutting through all of the controversy and conspiracy theories about Israels deadly attack on the USS Liberty in June 1967 at the height of the Six Day War, Cristol revises his well-regarded book about the event with a complete, in-depth analysis of all of the sources, including recently released tapes from National Security Agency. When the first edition of The Liberty Incident was published in 2002 there remained many unanswered questions about Israeli Air Force audio tapes intercepted by the NSA. Some alleged they would prove that the Israeli attack was premeditated. Cristols successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency, while resulting in the release of those tapes, has been greeted by anti-Israel sources insisting that the NSA tapes are fraudulent and are part of a larger conspiracy to deceive the American public! After a quarter of a century of intensive research in Israel and the U.S., researching all relevant archives from NSA, CIA and the State Department, reviewing both formerly classified and open source documents, and interviewing all then-living individuals directly involved in the incident, the factual and documentary record is clear. Cristol maintains that despite the fact that all of the official records and transcripts are now available for review, the truth has proven to be of no interest to those individuals and organizations who are motivated by hidden agendas, wish to keep conspiracy theories alive, or are trying to feed sensational stories to the media. Documenting his findings in six new chapters, Cristol establishes in THE LIBERTY INCIDENT REVEALED that the Israeli attack was a tragic mistake and presents a convincing argument that will be regarded as the final story about this incident.

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THE

LIBERTY INCIDENT

REVEALED


A JAY CRISTOL


THE

LIBERTY INCIDENT

REVEALED

THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT

OF THE 1967 ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE U.S. NAVY SPY SHIP

Naval Institute Press

Annapolis, Maryland

Naval Institute Press

291 Wood Road

Annapolis, MD 21402

2013 by A Jay Cristol

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cristol, A. Jay

[Liberty incident.]

The Liberty incident revealed : the definitive account of the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S. Navy spy ship / A. Jay Cristol.[Revised and expanded edition]

pages cm

Previously published: The Liberty incident : the 1967 Israeli attack on the U.S. Navy spy ship / A. Jay Cristol. Washington, D.C. : Brasseys, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61251-387-4 (ebook) 1. Israel-Arab War, 1967Naval operations. 2. Liberty (Ship) I. Cristol, A. Jay, date II. Title.

DS127.6.N3C74 2013

956.046dc23

2013016521

Picture 1Picture 2 Print editions meet the requirements of ANSI/NISO z39.48-1992

(Permanence of Paper).

21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

First printing

To the memory of Adm. Isaac C. Kidd Jr., U.S. Navy, and Vice Adm. Donald D. Engen, U.S. Navygiants in the history of the U.S. Navy


CONTENTS






W hen I began this research project some twenty-seven years ago I thought, perhaps naively, that by collecting hard original evidence, analyzing it, and publishing it I would answer the question of whether or not the attack on the USS Liberty was a premeditated act by Israel against a U.S. warship or a tragic case of mistaken identity and friendly fire. Sadly, I have learned over the years that there are many persons and entities who, pursuing their own agendas, are not even remotely interested in facts or truth and are concerned only with using this sad story as a means to attack and try to undermine the outstanding special relationship between the United States and Israel.

When the first edition of The Liberty Incident was published in 2002, there remained unanswered questions about audiotapes intercepted by the National Security Agency (NSA) that were alleged by some to contain absolute proof that the Israeli attack had been premeditated. My subsequent Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency resulted in the release of those tapes. They are now available on the NSA website (www.nsa.gov), and one may listen to the tapes in the original Hebrew or review their preliminary and final translations. The NSA tapes and the Israel Air Force tapes may be compared in appendix 2 of this book.

Although the tapes clearly establish that the Israeli armed forces believed they were attacking a hostile ship, anti-Israel sources now insist that the NSA tapes are fraudulent and are part of a conspiracy between the National Security Agency and this author to deceive the American public!

In 2004, less than a year after I obtained the release of the above tapes, the U.S. Department of State held in Washington, D.C., a conference in connection with the release of Foreign Relations, 19641968, Volume XIX, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1967. I was invited to deliver a lecture at that conference, which was moderated by Dr. Marc Susser, the historian of the Department of State. Dr. David Robarge, of the Central Intelligence Agency history staff; Dr. David Hatch, a historian for the National Security Agency; Dr. Michael Oren, then a scholar at Shalem Institute in Jerusalem and now Israels ambassador to the United States; author James Bamford; and Dr. Charles Smith of the University of Arizona, as commentator, were on the panel with me.

As indicated below, in , the U.S. State Department in its summary of the USS Liberty incident unequivocally concluded that the attack was a tragic mistake. Since then, it has been claimed that the State Department is a coconspirator with the National Security Agency and this author!

Thereafter, in October 2009, I was invited to appear on a panel at the National Security Agency and present a paper on the Liberty incident. My paper urged the National Security Agency to make an affirmative statement that the attack was a case of mistaken identity, but the National Security Agency, for reasons that remain known only to it, continues to decline to state publicly a position on the issue. This is rather strange, in view of the NSAs own conclusions in its 1981 document Attack on a SIGINT Collector the U.S.S. Liberty that the knowledge that the tragedy resulted not only from Israeli miscalculation but also from faulty U.S. communications practices was even more difficult to accept and while these reports revealed some confusion on the part of the pilots concerning the nationality of the ship, they tended to rule out any thesis that the Israeli Navy and Air Force deliberately attacked a ship they knew to be American.

Furthermore, the historian for the National Security Agency, Dr. Thomas R. Johnson, in his history of the agency, clearly states that the attack was a tragic mistake. I have been unable to find or obtain any internal NSA document suggesting that the attack was a premeditated one against an American warship. The strongest negative statement on the issue within the NSA was made by Louis W. Tordello, who served as deputy director from 1956 to 1974. On July 5, 1967, in an interim decision, Judge Yeshayahu Yerushalmi, a judge on the Military Court of Appeals, in his capacity as examining judge under section 283 of the Israel Military Justice Law of 1955, ruled, It appears to me, prima facie, that offenses of negligence may have been committed. The hearing was adjourned and reconvened, and it concluded on July 21, 1967, after testimony of thirty-four witnesses and receipt in evidence of fourteen documents. A final decision was rendered on July 21, 1967. Page 41 of the 1981 NSA report states, When NSAs Deputy Director read the decision of the Israeli Defense Forces preliminary inquiry, he summed up his personal feelings [emphasis added] on the subject by calling it a nice whitewash. He was displeased with the Israel examining judges ruling: I hold that there is no sufficient amount of prima facie evidence justifying committing anyone for trial. However, Tordello never provided any evidence in contradiction of the tragic mistake theory.

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