USS Liberty Incident 40th Anniversary Today is the 40th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. Given the recent grotesque failures of US intelligence predictions, it is a good time to reflect on this, the most deadly attack against the US intelligence community in history. Comments:2
Posted by A Casual Observer on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:08 | # I assume next May you’re going to post on the anniversary of the attack on the USS Stark, as well? Can you comment briefly on why Israel attacked this US ship? It was attacked in the middle of the Six Day War and some Israeli pilots misidentified the Liberty, thinking it was an Egyptian ship: the El Quseir. Pilots visually misidentifying targets is not without precedent; look at the 1994 Black Hawk incident where American F-15s visually misidentified two American UH-60s flying in northern Iraq, which the pilots thought were Iraqi Mi-24s. Were they spying on Israel? They were collecting electronic intelligence on all of the actors involved in the Six Day War. Sounds unusual for the US, no? Allies spy on each other all the time. 3
Posted by James Bowery on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:41 | # A Casual Observer repeats the official (Israeli) version of history. There are other views, as documented by the linked site: “I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. . . . Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn’t believe them then, and I don’t believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous “
“...the board of inquiry (concluded) that the Israelis knew exactly what they were doing in attacking the Liberty.”
“I can tell you for an absolute certainty (from intercepted communications) that the Israelis knew they were attacking an American ship.”
“That the Liberty could have been mistaken for the Egyptian supply ship El Quseir is unbelievable”
“The highest officials of the [Johnson] administration, including the President, believed it ‘inconceivable’ that Israel’s ‘skilled’ defense forces could have committed such a gross error.”
“A nice whitewash for a group of ignorant, stupid and inept [expletive deleted].”
“Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Navy Board of Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eyewitnesses and taken, on faith, the word of their attackers.
“The evidence was clear. Both Admiral Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack…was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew…. It was our shared belief. . .that the attack. . .could not possibly have been an accident…. I am certain that the Israeli pilots [and] their superiors. . .were well aware that the ship was American.”
That the attack was deliberate “just wasn’t a disputed issue” within the National Security Agency
Former NSA/CIA Director Admiral Bobby Inman “flatly rejected” the Cristol/Israeli claims that the attack was an accident
Of four former NSA/CIA seniors with inside knowledge, none was aware of any agency official who dissented from the position that the attack was deliberate
“It appears to me that it was not a pure case of mistaken identity.”
“To suggest that they [the IDF] couldn’t identify the ship is ... ridiculous. ... Anybody who could not identify the Liberty could not tell the difference between the White House and the Washington Monument.” 4
Posted by Englander on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:20 | # Accepting the Israeli claim of mistaken identity should be seen as a clear sign of dishonesty. There can be no doubt that it was intentional. I see that the BBC again aired their honest documentary on the subject the other night. 5
Posted by anon on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:51 | # I was not doubting they did it intentionally, the Israelis are too smart to make that kind of mistake, the two ships look nothing like each other. I was just wondering what the motivation might be? seems like a big risk to take against the country who protects their existance with massive military subsidies. 6
Posted by E T Gomulka, CAPT, CHC, USN (Ret) on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:33 | # It took the Russians 50 years before Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev admitted to the 1940 Katyn Woods massacre of some 4,500 Polish officers. It may take another 10 years before the U.S. and Israeli governments admit that the 8 June 1967 Israeli attack on USS Liberty was not accidental. The evidence is so overwhelming that the Israelis, recipients of billions and billions of dollars in US aid, intentionally attempted to sink AGTR-5 and kill all onbaord. The failure to investigate this attack represents the greatest betrayal of US military personnel by Congressional leaders in the history of our country. 7
Posted by Liberty Bell on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:01 | # V. Rare: a major American newspaper allows that Isarel might have been guilty. Comment is allowed - and happily it’s been robust! 8
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Posted by anon on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:12 | #
James,
I know the site you linked had a lot of info on it but I haven’t time to wade through it all right now. Can you comment briefly on why Israel attacked this US ship?
Were they spying on Israel? Sounds unusual for the US, no?