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The simple fact is that they admitted it. They had to after being caught red handed. The evidence did not sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean and there were witnesses.
The Israeli government admitted to the June 8, 1967 attack by Israeli Defense Forces on the American spy ship USS Liberty. The Liberty was a SIGINT or signals intelligence gathering ship. In that attack, on an American ship in the Eastern Mediterranean, 34 military personnel including a civilian crew-member were killed, and 175 were wounded, with enough damage to the ship to end her useful service life. Among the 34 dead, 33 were naval personnel and one was a civilian employee of the National Security Agency, the NSA. The ship had a crew compliment of 290 officers and men including three civilian linguists.
A sterile diplomatic apology was made by the Government of Israel (GOI), without admitting culpability, and eventually, after some haggling compensation was paid to the families of the dead, and to the wounded for their injuries. Years later, during the presidency of Jimmie Carter, after more political pressure and haggling, the United States government received payment for the damage to the ship from the government of Israel. In view of the vast amounts of foreign aid provided to the State of Israel, one can speculate as to whom actually made these damage payments--was it the Unites States taxpayers?
In the aftermath of the attack by planes of the Israeli Air Force and motor torpedo boats of the Israeli Navy, some 40 plus years later, survivors continue to suffer a life time of trauma and the sense of abandonment by their government with no forum or remedies apparently available to redress the injustices suffered. For them justice is not measured in dollars. There is a lingering sense of betrayal by their then President and Commander-in-Chief, and the Congress of the United States. Subsequent presidents and congresses have perpetrated this injustice claiming no new evidence exists to warrant opening the matter for further investigation. It is no surprise that many of the crew suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome; however, it is disconcerting to have the claim of PTSS used against them to undermine the survivors credibility as witnesses. After the passage of years as new information slowly emerges, the witnesses and victims to the event are now passing away due to age. Memories are fading and documents have become lost or destroyed--evidence of possible crimes committed at the governmental level.
Despite efforts by both the United States government and government of Israel to sweep the incident under the rug with the continuing cloak of official secrecy, the matter still lingers today, more actively than ever, after more than forty years. An open festering wound continues to exist in many quarters adversely affecting relationships between both countries, to some extent mitigated with the passage of time and the need to deal with real world crises in the Middle East region. A simple question is do we spy on each other? Former U.S. government officials will claim that because of our special relationship with Israel that our national security has been undermined for political reasons at the presidential level.
The attack on the USS Liberty raises many questions, some answered, but more remain part of a continuing mystery. To understand the Liberty story is to understand our Middle East foreign policy, and our strange relationship with the State of Israel. Nevertheless, the interests of the United States and Israel do not always merge. Events of that Six-Day War still cloud efforts to bring peace to the area, and we came close to a nuclear confrontation every bit as serious as the Cuban Missile Crisis of the early 60s.

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They were betrayed and abandoned by their government

Reflections on the Cover-up of the June 1967 Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty an American Spy Ship

Our Middle East Foreign Policy Quagmire

By
Robert J. Allen, J.D.

Table of Contents
Copyright

Copyright 2012 by Robert J. Allen, all rights reserved.

Published by RJ Allen

All rights are reserved including electronic and print medium. Reproduction or use of editorial or pictorial content in any manner is prohibited without expressed permission of the author and publisher. No patent liability is assumed with respect to the use of information or format contained herein. Every precaution has been taken in preparation of this book, and the publisher and author assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of information contained herein.

E-Book ISBN: 978-1-4675-3428-4

Published in the United States: July 2012

Illustrations, Photos, Internet Links

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The following Internet links will take the reader to various websites where documents, discussed herein, dealing the attack on the USS Liberty can be found. One link is supportive of the Israeli claim of mistake and another two are Liberty supported sites. Additionally, there is a link to the U.S. Department of State Office of the History where documents can be found. Finally, there is a link to the LBJ Library and U.S. Naval photo archive. Caveat: Internet website links maybe subject to change.

http://www.ussliberty.org

http://www.usslibertyinquiry.com

http://www.thelibertyincident.com

http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/johnson

http://www.lbjlibrary.org

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/agtr5.htm

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/index.shtml

Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge and thank those Liberty survivors and supporters who were so courteous to a stranger, answered questions and provided information pertaining to their saga and quest for justice. It was a true honor to be able to attend their 37th annual reunion.

Glossary and Acronyms

ACRP: Airborne Reconnaissance Program

AFSS: Air Force Security Service

AGTR: Auxiliary General Technical Research

CHOP: Slang for transferring command

CIA: Central Intelligence Agency

CINCEUR: Naval Commander in Chief Europe

CNO: Chief Naval Operations

COI: Court of Inquiry

COMINT: Communications Intelligence

CPA: Closest Point of Approach

CRITIC: High Speed Communication System

CTs: Communication Technicians

C-130: Air Force Electronic Surveillance Aircraft

DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency

DMZ: Demilitarized Zone

DTG: Date Time Group

EC-121: Navy US Electronic Surveillance Aircraft

ECM: Electronic Counter Measures

ELINT: Electronic Intelligence

FOIA: Freedom of Information Act

G-Group: Group within the NSA

GOI: Government of Israel

HUMINT: Human Intelligence

IDF: Israeli Defense Forces

JAG: Military Judge Advocate General

JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff

JRC: Joint Reconnaissance Command

LVA: Liberty Veterans Association

MI5: British Internal Intelligence Service

MI-6: British Foreign Intelligence Service

MOSSAD: Israeli Intelligence Service

NCI: Naval Court of Inquiry

NFOIO: Naval Field Operational Intelligence Office

NSA: National Security Agency

NSG: Naval Security Group

PFIAB: President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

PIM: Planned Intended Movement Report

PLO: Palestinian Liberation Organization

PTSS: Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome

SIGINT: Signal Intelligence

SIOP: Launch Procedure for Carrier Jets with Nukes

SITREP: Situation Report

TF-60: U.S. Naval Task Force 60

TPC: Technical Processing Center

TRS: Technical Research Ship

TRSSCOMM: Satellite Communication Dish on USS Liberty

UAR: United Arab Republic

UHF: Ultra High Radio Frequency

UNEF: United Nations Emergency Force

USN-855: Naval Security Group

USSR: Union Socialist Soviet Russia

VHF: Very High Radio Frequency

ZULU: Military Time Designation

Dedication

This work is dedicated to the victims of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and the U.S. cover-up, dead and living; and to those still seeking the truth. They are the real heroes in the struggle to preserve the Rule of Law not letting it become victim to politicians who lack the courage and understanding to know where the real strength of a democracy lies.

Author's Approach

This book is about a massive on-going government cover-up of the killing and wounding of American service personnel by a fledging ally. The consequence of which is that important government documents have either been destroyed or continue to be suppressed notwithstanding many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests having been filed over the yearsin short an apparent obstruction of justice. Issues of foreign policy and national security as well as being a matter of political cover for politicians complicate this matter.

The event being researched is the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty , an American intelligence gather ship off the coast of the Sinai in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Arab-Israeli Six-day War. While much time has elapsed since those events, the topic is still of interest as new information continues to dribble out. A number of authors have written about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty and each has provided bits and pieces of the puzzle. Attention is directed toward those authors for nuances and those nuances are verified to the extent possible. The author's challenge is to ferret out facts pertaining to a public event that has provoked allegations of murder and war crimes.

In the course of events with the passage of time there have been efforts at misinformation and disinformation, in essence an information war with those claiming an intentional attack, and those contending the attack was a case of mistaken identitya friendly-fire incidentsomething that can occur in the fog-of-war . Most importantly, the matter of the attack is a certainty, and who perpetrated it is a matter of certainty. The ship's crew and families have suffered physically, psychologically, as well has having lost faith in their government who they feel has abandoned them.

Many of the important players of the time have since died, and some have refused to fully comment or discuss what happened on that fateful day on June 8, 1967 for various reasons including fear, loss of pension or other punishment (feasible or not), and even out of loyalty for their country and to an overriding sense of duty. In jest, one CT (communications technician) survivor, when I asked about the ship's mission, said he could tell me but then he would have to kill me. I never did get a straight answer. For those who have come forward with information they should be praised for their story is still incomplete.

Probably the most important issue is that certain questions have not been raised by the American public, the media, or the Congress of the United Statesthat beg asking. It is therefore the intent of this author to raise some of those questions even though the definitive answers continue to elude the many researchers. However, the questions themselves suggest the answer or possible answers and are an important process in its own right. Any good investigator needs to know how to raise the right questionsthat is our purpose here. The investigative process should not be obstructed by intimidation or temerity. Several key questions are summarized here:

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