| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 7:55 am Post subject: Interview with James Ennes |
| The following article is accessible via http://www.ussliberty.org
Interview with James Ennes
Interviewer :Ali A. Jafari
Interviewer : James Ennes
Date : July 18, 2002
"Israeli attack on US ship was no accident says survivor"
On June 8,1967, in the midst of what became known as six day war
,Israeli aircraft and motor boats brutally attacked an American naval vessel ,the USSLiberty ,in the international waters off the Sinai peninsula in the
Mediterranean sea. The attack lasted more than two hours, killing 34 American sailors and wounding 171 others. Ever since then, with the survivors of the Liberty insisting that the attack on Liberty was deliberate and premeditated, and the Israelis claiming that it was unintentional, the issue has become a recurring source of tension between Israel and United States.
Jame Jam newspaper which published the statements of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Admiral Thomas Moorer on October 21, 2001 has had the opportunity to interview James Ennes who was an lieutenant aboard the USSLiberty on the day of attack.
Greeting Mr Ennes, We at Jame Jam newspaper thank you for giving us
this great opportunity to present your side of the story of USSLiberty.
Q: When did you join the USS Liberty and what position did you serve on June 8, 1967?
I joined the ship in April, 1967. I was a lieutenant and was assigned to be the ship's Electronic Materiel Officer, responsible for the maintenance
and repair of all of the ship's electronic equipment. I also stood watches
on the bridge as Officer of the Deck.
Q: There have been many cases of "friendly fire" and misidentification in
wartime. unlike other cases, attack on USS Liberty has lingered for 35 years and still remains unresolved.
Israelis claim that attack on Liberty, was also a case of mistaken identity and that they misidentified Liberty for an Egyptian horse carrier EL Quseir. One of the reasons that they present for their argument, is that, the attacking jets circled the ship three times looking for a
flag, but no flag was flown. Do you agree with that statement?
A: "Friendly fire" is a brief, accidental attack. This was a prolonged, carefully coordinated attack. It has been called the most carefully
planned "accident" in the history of warfare. The Israeli account of the attack is untrue. We flew a flag at all times,
and it stood out clearly displayed in a good breeze. Israeli jets
circled us thirteen times during the several hours before the attack, and during that period we heard their pilots informing their headquarters by radio that we were American. When the attack started, the attacking jets
passed high overhead once, then turned 180 degrees and came down the centerline firing without any attempt to identify us.
Long after the attack I was contacted by an Israeli pilot who told me that on his first flight over the ship he saw our American flag and informed
his headquarters that we were American but was told to ignore the flag and attack anyway. He refused to do so and returned to base where he was arrested. I was told by an Israeli in the war room that they knew we were
American. I have been told by several American intelligence analysts who read or in some cases heard the messages between the pilots and their headquarters that these messages make it very clear that the pilots and their headquarters knew we were American.
Q: You have written a book titled "Assault on Liberty". What are some of
the most convincing reasons or evidences that you have presented in that book, which proves the Israelis knowingly attacked Liberty?
A: Among other things, the extensive reconnaissance, the fact that the
attack continued for 75 minutes and the fact that they compiled a totally
false account of what happened. After the torpedo explosion the torpedo boats
examined our name in English on the stern and our American flag on the
mast from less than fifty feet away, and continued to fire from close range
for another 40 minutes. As US Secretary of State Dean Rusk said later, an
accident may occur for a few minutes; there is no way our very
distinctive-looking ship could have been fired upon for 75 minutes from
close range without it being recognized as American.
In the hours after the attack a "consensus report" was written
reflecting the view of all American intelligence agencies that the attack was
deliberate. This report was circulated, but was withdrawn and
cancelled and all copies destroyed because it was too embarrassing politically to
be allowed to stand.
Q: Being small in size and population, Israelis have always relied on
spying to get intelligence information. They have spied on many Arab
and non-Arab countries including the U.S .In October 1954 quite a few of
the Israeli spies were arrested and two of them were executed in Egypt.
Elias Cohen, was the Israeli spy who was caught in 1965 and later executed
in Syria and I am sure you know about Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli spy
whose spying activities cost the lives of America's most loyal and best
agents in the communist world.
Generally speaking, how could the Israelis not have known that EL-Quesir
was not even there?
A:They could not have made such a mistake. Israeli naval officer have
told me they are embarrassed by the claim that they could been so
incompetent as to make such a mistake.
Q: It has been reported that after the Liberty radioed for help, two
aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean responded by launching fighter
aircraft, but they were recalled before reaching their destination to
help Liberty. Can you tell us who gave the orders and why they were
recalled?
A: Secretary Robert McNamara ordered the recall of rescue aircraft. He
has refused to discuss the matter. The recall order was confirmed by
President Lyndon Johnson. President Johnson later said that he would not risk
shooting down Israeli aircraft, even if Americans died as a result.
Q: Quite often the American Government is referred to as a" Government of
the people, for the people, by the people". in 1967 your responsible officials by recalling the launched aircrafts, left you practically unprotected and since then, your Government not only blocked every
effort to launch an investigation but in fact did everything it could, in
order to cover it up for thirty-five years. Is there any doubt in your
mind that the very government that you put your life on the line to
protect, betrayed you and your shipmates?
A: Someone in our government certainly failed to protect us after
promising that we would be protected.
Q: There are certain motives behind any crime that is committed, if
indeed as you believe, the Israeli attack on Liberty was premeditated,
what was their motive for attacking the Liberty?
A: The USS Liberty was an intelligence ship. Clearly someone in Israel
feared
that we would learn something that Israel did not want the US to
know. Some American intelligence experts have said that they believe
this was the pending invasion of Syria to capture the Golan Heights.
Q: In recent years an impressive number of American officials including
Admiral Thomas Moorer, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(JCS) at the time of Liberty incident, have gone on record insisting that
the Israeli action was, in fact deliberate.
Are you optimistic that after 35 years of cover up, the truth may finally come out?
A:No. I fear that Israel has so many friends in the Congress and the
White House that no effective investigation is ever likely to be conducted.
But we can continue to report the facts so that the world may learn the
truth.
In 1956 President Eisenhower forced the Israelis to cease their advance
toward Suez. This was still a bitter memory in Israel in 1967. The
Israelis did not want to risk having to withdraw from the Golan Heights
as they had from Suez, so they disabled the USS Liberty in the hope that
the US could be kept in the dark until the Heights were in Israeli hands.
This week a Navy Times survey of its readers showed that about 90%
support a call for a new investigation of the attack. Yet few members of
Congress are likely to support an inquiry as it would certainly prove embarrassing to Israel.
Q: Generally speaking, in an incident like Liberty, one would feel
that the most valuable, viable and valid sources of information would be
people such as yourself who were present on the battlefield on June 8, 1967.
A. Jay Cristol a pro-Israeli Federal Judge and one of the most outspoken
critics of the Liberty story, is the author of a book titled "the Liberty
Incident ".He supposedly has done "extensive research" and has
interviewed
many of the survivors. It has been reported that you refused to cooperate
with him. was there any particular reason that caused you not to
cooperate ?
A: After a brief telephone conversation, I did not trust him to treat the
subject fairly or objectively. His dissertation and his later book
proved that judgment to be valid in that he has distorted many of the facts.
For instance, his book makes much of what he claims is the visual
acuity of fighter pilots, yet experienced pilots tell me that pilots can see much
more than Cristol claims and could easily have seen our flag. Cristol
discounts as untrue the unanimous eyewitness reports of American
survivors but accepts as true virtually every false claim by the Israelis. He
relies upon the Court of Inquiry which is itself false and has been discredited by
its own legal counsel. He claims Liberty's radio intercept range was only 25 miles, which is dead wrong. He claims the Liberty had no radio
telephone contact with Washington, which is untrue. He claims only a
few survivors regard the attack as deliberate, yet the truth is that
survivors are unanimous in calling the attack deliberate. He claims our radios
were not jammed, when even the corrupt Court of Inquiry says they were.
He claims he came to Seattle to interview me and that I broke a promise to
see him, which is untrue. In fact, he had asked only to talk to me by
telephone during a layover in Seattle, and I chose not to take the call
because I realized that his intent was to try to discredit us, not to
report our story objectively.
In fact, Cristol claims to have made numerous trips to Israel and to
have interviewed over 200 people for his book, but his research is very
unbalanced, drawing primary from Israeli sources while ignoring or
discounting most eyewitness reports. he has interviewed few survivors, and those only very briefly. He brands Liberty's senior intercept officer a liar, yet made no attempt to interview him. His
research appears to be aimed entirely at attempting to discredit
survivors, not to investigate the attack objectively. He claims to be the world's
foremost expert on the attack, but I have never heard from a survivor
who believes he can be taken seriously.
Q: Upon returning to the U.S, the Liberty crew were ordered and in fact
threatened to be silent. Who gave the order and why?
A: Survivors were visited in hospitals all over the US by many different
officers and warned to be quiet. Aboard the ship, Admiral Kidd called
men together in groups and warned them never to talk about the attack
with any, not even their wives and mothers, or risk being sent to
prison.
Q: In November of 1980 the Iranian students in protest to the U.S
Government policy of letting the former Shah of Iran in the U.S for
medical treatment, stormed the U.S embassy in Tehran and held 52
American hostage for 444 days. ABC news almost immediately launched a new
program by the name of Nightline with correspondence Ted
Koppel reporting on the condition of the hostages as well as the developments of
the story itself night by night. The title of the nightly report was: " The Iran crisis, America held hostage". As I am sure you know, the hostages finally came home safe and sound and were given a hero`s welcome, and nightline has continued its special report on important events
including many interviews with former hostages . By comparison, the brutal and tragic Israeli attack on USSLiberty in which 34 innocent young Americans were killed and 171 others were badly wounded, is something that most Americans who are well-informed about President Bill Clinton`s affair with Monica lewinsky,
may not even be aware that it ever took place. You know Mr Ennes one
wonders ,why there wasn't a similar program like nightline launched for
Liberty and her survivors?
What would have been wrong if ABC news had a nightly report with a title such as "The Middle East Crisis: Israeli Attack on USSLiberty"?
It seems as if the mainstream mass media had a tacit agreement with the U.S Government to keep the public in dark about Liberty and the plight
of its survivors . Don't you feel that they have acted very selectively
and in fact unfairly in regards to Liberty incident?
A: There is much opposition in this country to this story being told. Ted
Koppel is an interesting case. In 1982 Ted Koppel invited several
survivors to his studios in Washington, DC, where we filmed a full
report on the attack. It was edited and scheduled for broadcast, and then on
the very day it was to be broadcast Israel invaded Lebanon and that bigger
story replaced the Liberty story. Later, when broadcasters planned to
present the Liberty show, the films had mysteriously vanished from the
file room, never to be found.
Q: Jean-Paul Sartre the famous French philosopher has said and I
quote "
man is a product of time and place". By reading chapter six of your
book ,one can see that on June 8, 1967, you experienced perhaps the worst
day of your life. The political officials who were supposed to help you,
betrayed you . The president and military officials who were supposed
to rescue your and your shipmates ,recalled the aircrafts and left
you unprotected against the attacking Israeli jets. The mass media which
was supposed to give Liberty and plight of its survivors, extensive coverage,
has acted with deafening silence, and finally, taking your experience with
A. Jay Cristol into consideration, one could say that the pen that should
have elicited the facts and told the truth, has distorted it. Can you please tell us how the Liberty incident has affected your life?
A:I published the first edition of this book in 1980, expecting to go on to other things. To my surprise, the story lives on. Twenty-two years
later I continue to get daily mail and phone calls. I have created the web site at http://www.ussliberty.com to help answer the many questions that still arise.
Q: Is there anything else that you would like to say regarding the
Liberty or in general.
A: My shipmates and I have tried for 35 years to tell the truth about the attack to the American public and to the world. We appreciate the opportunity you have given us to tell the story to the Iranian people.
We wish you peace. | |  | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 8:00 am Post subject: Truth and Liberty |
| Truth and Liberty
William Plaine Arilington, VA VA USA (23 Apr 2003)
http://www.jpost.com/Letters/39274.html
At the AFEI / NDAI conference for Net Centric Operations Wednesday, April 16, 2003, Assistant Secretary for Defense for C3I, John Stenbit, indicated that the Israelis made a very clear threat that if the US did not move the USS Liberty within 24 hours, they would sink it.
His exact quote was: "The Israeli's told 24 hours before that we had a ship called the Liberty, and if we didn't move it they would sink it. Unfortunately, the ship was not moved and by the time the message arrived the ship was taking on water".
For those who have believed it was a mistake, the truth, when coupled with the EC-121 intercepts is now very clear. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 8:06 am Post subject: `THE USS LIBERTY:' AMERICA'S MOST SHAMEFUL SECRET |
| http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/archive/uss_liberty.html
`THE USS LIBERTY:' AMERICA'S MOST SHAMEFUL SECRET
by Eric S. Margolis
29 April 2001
NEW YORK - On the fourth day of the 1967 Arab Israeli War, the intelligence ship `USS Liberty' was steaming slowly in international waters, 14 miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli armored forces were racing deep into Sinai in hot pursuit of the retreating Egyptian army.
`Liberty,' a World War II freighter, had been converted into an intelligence vessel by the top-secret US National Security Agency, and packed with the latest signals and electronic interception equipment. The ship bristled with antennas and electronic `ears' including TRSSCOMM, a system that delivered real-time intercepts to Washington by bouncing a stream of microwaves off the moon.
`Liberty' had been rushed to Sinai to monitor communications of the belligerents in the Third Arab Israeli War: Israel and her foes, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
At 0800 hrs, 8 June, 1967, eight Israeli recon flights flew over `Liberty,' which was flying a large American flag. At 1400 hrs, waves of low-flying Israeli Mystere and Mirage-III fighter-bombers repeatedly attacked the American vessel with rockets, napalm, and cannon. The air attacks lasted 20 minutes, concentrating on the ship's electronic antennas and dishes. The `Liberty' was left afire, listing sharply. Eight of her crew lay dead, a hundred seriously wounded, including the captain, Commander William McGonagle.
At 1424 hrs, three Israeli torpedo boats attacked, raking the burning `Liberty' with 20mm and 40mm shells. At 1431hrs an Israeli torpedo hit the `Liberty' midship, precisely where the signals intelligence systems were located. Twenty-five more Americans died.
Israeli gunboats circled the wounded `Liberty,' firing at crewmen trying to fight the fires. At 1515, the crew were ordered to abandon ship. The Israeli warships closed and poured machine gun fire into the crowded life rafts, sinking two. As American sailors were being massacred in cold blood, a rescue mission by US Sixth Fleet carrier aircraft was mysteriously aborted on orders from the White House.
An hour after the attack, Israeli warships and planes returned. Commander McGonagle gave the order. `prepare to repel borders.' But the Israelis, probably fearful of intervention by the US Sixth Fleet, departed. `Liberty' was left shattered but still defiant, her flag flying.
The Israeli attacks killed 34 US seamen and wounded 171 out of a crew of 297, the worst loss of American naval personnel from hostile action since World War II.
Less than an hour after the attack, Israel told Washington its forces had committed a `tragic error.' Later, Israel claimed it had mistaken `Liberty' for an ancient Egyptian horse transport. US Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, and Joint Chiefs of Staff head, Admiral Thomas Moorer, insisted the Israeli attack was deliberate and designed to sink `Liberty.' So did three CIA reports; one asserted Israel's Defense Minister, Gen. Moshe Dayan, had personally ordered the attack.
In contrast to American outrage over North Korea's assault on the intelligence ship `Pueblo,' Iraq's mistaken missile strike on the USS `Stark,' last fall's bombing of the USS `Cole' in Aden, and the recent US-China air incident, the savaging of `Liberty' was quickly hushed up by President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
The White House and Congress immediately accepted Israel's explanation and let the matter drop. Israel later paid a token reparation of US $6 million. There were reports two Israeli pilots who had refused to attack `Liberty' were jailed for 18 years.
Surviving `Liberty' crew members would not be silenced. They kept demanding an open inquiry and tried to tell their story of deliberate attack to the media. Israel's government worked behind the scenes to thwart these efforts, going so far as having American pro-Israel groups accuse `Liberty's' survivors of being `anti-Semites' and `Israel-haters.' Major TV networks cancelled interviews with the crew. A book about the `Liberty' by crewman James Ennes' was dropped from distribution. The Israel lobby branded him `an Arab propagandist.'
The attack on `Liberty' was fading into obscurity until last week, when intelligence expert James Bamford came out with `Body of Secrets,' his latest book about the National Security Agency. In a stunning revelation, Bamford writes that unknown to Israel, a US Navy EC-121 intelligence aircraft was flying high overhead the `Liberty,' electronically recorded the attack. The US aircraft crew provides evidence that the Israeli pilots knew full well that they were attacking a US Navy ship flying the American flag.
Why did Israel try to sink a naval vessel of its benefactor and ally? Most likely because `Liberty's' intercepts flatly contradicted Israel's claim, made at the war's beginning on 5 June, that Egypt had attacked Israel, and that Israel's massive air assault on three Arab nations was in retaliation. In fact, Israel began the war by a devastating, Pearl-Harbor style surprise attack that caught the Arabs in bed and destroyed their entire air forces.
Israel was also preparing to attack Syria to seize its strategic Golan Heights. Washington warned Israel not to invade Syria, which had remained inactive while Israel fought Egypt. Bamford says Israel's offensive against Syria was abruptly postponed when `Liberty' appeared off Sinai, then launched once it was knocked out of action. Israel's claim that Syria had attacked it could have been disproved by `Liberty.'
Most significant, `Liberty's' intercepts may have shown that Israel seized upon sharply rising Arab-Israeli tensions in May-June 1967 to launch a long-planned war to invade and annex the West Bank, Jerusalem, Golan and Sinai.
Far more shocking was Washington's response. Writes Bamford: `Despite the overwhelming evidence that Israel attacked the ship and killed American servicemen deliberately, the Johnson Administration and Congress covered up the entire incident.' Why?
Domestic politics. Johnson, a man never noted for high moral values, preferred to cover up the attack rather than anger a key constituency and major financial backer of the Democratic Party. Congress was even less eager to touch this `third rail' issue.
Commander McGonagle was quietly awarded the Medal of Honor for his and his men's heroism - not in the White House, as is usual, but in an obscure ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard. Crew member's graves were inscribed, `died in the Eastern Mediterranean..' as if they had be killed by disease, rather than hostile action.
A member of President Johnson's staff believed there was a more complex reason for the cover-up: Johnson offered Jewish liberals unconditional backing of Israel, and a cover-up of the `Liberty' attack, in exchange for the liberal toning down their strident criticism of his policies in the then raging Vietnam War.
Israel, which claims it fought a war of self defense in 1967 and had no prior territorial ambitions, will be much displeased by Bamford's revelations. Those who believe Israel illegally occupies the West Bank and Golan will be emboldened.
Much more important, the US government's long, disgraceful cover-up of the premeditated attack on `Liberty' has now burst into the open and demands full-scale investigation. After 34 years, the voices of `Liberty's' dead and wounded seamen must finally be heard.
Copyright: Eric S. Margolis 2001 | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 8:12 am Post subject: NSA MAY RELEASE USS LIBERTY DOCS |
| > NSA MAY RELEASE USS LIBERTY DOCS
>
> The National Security Agency says it may be willing to declassify
> electronic intercepts concerning the 1967 attack on the U.S.S.
> Liberty by Israeli forces, according to the plaintiff in a
> Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking their disclosure.
>
> The Israeli attack on the Liberty, a U.S. intelligence vessel,
> resulted in the deaths of 34 American sailors. It is officially
> deemed an accident of war, but it has spawned lingering
> controversy among those who do not accept the official
> explanation and believe the attack must have been deliberate and
> witting.
>
> A. Jay Cristol, a bankruptcy court judge in Miami who has studied
> the attack in depth and who concluded it was a tragic mistake,
> filed suit against the NSA earlier this year to compel
> declassification of electronic communications monitored by or
> near the Liberty at the time of the attack.
>
> In response to his lawsuit, "An NSA representative called me and
> said 'I have some good news -- they're talking about giving you
> some of the material you want'," Judge Cristol told Secrecy News
> on April 24.
>
> A reply to Cristol's lawsuit had been due in May. The NSA asked
> Cristol for a 60 day extension, until July 7, to complete its
> review and its presumptive release of selected documents.
>
> A copy of Judge Cristol's January 21 FOIA lawsuit is posted here:
>
> http://www.fas.org/sgp/foia/cristol.html
>
> His web site concerning his book "The Liberty Incident"
> (Brassey's, 2002) is here:
>
> http://www.thelibertyincident.com/index.htm
>
> The web site of USS Liberty survivors is here:
>
> http://www.ussliberty.org/ | | | | hateliars | | Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 8:51 pm Post subject: |
| | For those who don't know, Jay Cristol is Jewish and a strong supporter of Israel. So naturally he is looking to find ways to exculpate them. God's chosen people are never guilty of anything, don't you know? | | | | dangerousdna | | Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 10:09 pm Post subject: |
| Yeah, he's an Israel firster and traitor to America.
Always putting Israel above America, so why do those traitors still live here?
He wasn't on the USS Liberty to experience that assault.
His bogus book is calling our veteran sailors liars.
He's just hiding Israeli treachery in that book of fables. | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 1:20 am Post subject: Golan Heights of Syria and Israel |
| Letter to the Editor May 6, 2003
Golan Heights of Syria and Israel
Mark Cook’s story on Syria needs correction. He inferred Syria is a greater threat than Iraq was. How absurd!
Golan Heights of Syria comprises 483 square miles of rich farmland with picturesque views and access to Jordan River water. Israel Defense Minister, General Moshe Dayan illegally seized the Golan Heights during the six-day war in 1967 but Israel previously had an appetite for this land.
In 1976 Dayan gave a secret extra-ordinary interview to Israeli journalist Rani Tal that was kept secret for 21 years. General Dayan died in 1981. Only on April 27, 1997 did his daughter Yael, a Labor Parliamentarian and peacemaker released this confession for publication.
Dayan said: “I made a mistake in allowing the conquest of the Golan Heights. As Defense Minister, I should have stopped it, because Syria was not a threat to Israel. It was a Land Grab for Greed and if Israel does not return the Golan Heights to Syria, it will be an obstacle to peace.”
All of these years after forcing Syrians into poverty and refugee camps, America has given free to Israel billions of dollars to build roads, housing and school for Jews only. This is illegal.
Why did C. T. Dunsford write a story in Florida-to-Day about Jewish people turning desert wasteland into productive green land, without telling you how it was done. Israel did it by removing tons of topsoil from Lebanon, using big trucks and bulldozers given freely to Israel with U. S. Foreign-Aid.
Please send a stamped self-addressed envelope to Carl Greeley, Researcher at P.O. Box 781353, Sebastian, Fl 32978 to receive free informative stories on these two subjects, that were published in Press Journal and Washington Report magazine, that went to every U. S. Embassy in the World.
Carl Greeley, Researcher
E-mail: carlnh@cfl.rr.com | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:24 am Post subject: WRMEA Article on USS Liberty Attack |
| From the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Magazine (http://www.wrmea.com)
July/August 2003 Page 42
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NAVY CAPTAIN, OTHER OFFICIALS CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF
ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON USS LIBERTY
By Delinda C. Hanley
Nearly every former senior government and military official
who has examined Israel's 1967 attack on the USS LIBERTY agrees
it was deliberate. Now, thanks to the publication of Judge A.
Jay Cristol's book, THE LIBERTY INCIDENT: THE 1967 ATTACK ON A
U.S. NAVY SPY SHIP, they are going public. Cristol's book tour
included a December 2002 presentation at the Naval Historical
Center in Washington, DC, where he touted his version of the
attack which, based primarily on Israeli sources, he says was
unintentional. Ironically, it looks like what actually was un-
intentional is that Cristol's efforts to quell the debate have
had exactly the opposite effect.
Reading reports of Cristol's whitewash of the devastating
attack, which killed 34 American crewmen and wounded 172 others,
was the last straw for Captain Ward Boston, senior legal counsel
for the Navy's Court of Inquiry. Commander-in-Chief Naval Forces
Europe, Boston and the late Rear Admiral Isaac "Ike" Kidd were
given just one week by Admiral John McCain (father of Sen. John
McCain) to investigate the attack and gather testimony from
survivors still on board the crippled ship. Captain Boston asked
each witness to tell his story for a court stenographer.
"There is no question in my mind that those goddamned bastards
tried to kill everyone on board," Boston told the WASHINGTON REPORT.
"I was the counsel. I put witnesses on. I talked to kids never
exposed to combat who'd seen their friend's head blown off. Kids
who were crying as they told me what they'd gone through. Those
boys who had their heads blown away were not out fighting [the
Israelis]. They were sunbathing. They weren't even given a
chance to get to their machine guns."
Boston also watched the bodies of the dead carried out of
the hold, and saw boys throw up as they retrieved body parts
and mopped up after the shelling and torpedo attack. He recalled
seeing the shot-up U.S. flags that had clearly marked the ship
as an American vessel. Boston flatly dismisses the claims of
Cristol and Israel that Israeli fighter pilots mistook the
electronically advanced spy ship, complete with an 18-foot-wide
satellite dish, a microwave dish, and antennae, for the EL
QUSEIR, a 1920s-era Egyptian horse transport ship.
The Navy captain heard survivors' testimonies that the
Israelis even shot up the LIBERTY's lifeboats after they were
lowered into the waters to save the crew. That testimony was
excised from the official record at some point after it left
Boston's hands. (The tattered rafts now are proudly displayed
in an Israeli museum.) Boston recalls shaking hands with
LIBERTY skipper Commander William McGonagle, who had a big hole
in his leg. "He thanked me later for that handshake," Boston
recalled, "because it made some shrapnel pop out of his hand."
When Boston suggested going to Tel Aviv to have the Israelis
tell their side of the story, he was told, "You can't do it.
Come on home and present the evidence you have."
Armed with a gun to protect the evidence, which he had
attached to himself with handcuffs, Admiral Kidd, along with
Captain Boston took the records to London. As the week allotted
for gathering testimony came to an end, the team gathered 20
people to type up the report, which ended up being three inches
thick. After all the evidence painstakingly collected was turned
over to the U.S. Embassy there, the report may have been
altered. "I made lots of corrections which are no longer in the
report," Captain Boston told the WASHINGTON REPORT. "There are
even pages missing."
A U.S. Embassy official in London told Kidd that he and his
men must keep quiet. Ten days after the attack, the Navy's Court
of Inquiry, despite all the evidence to the contrary, somehow
exonerated Israel and ruled the attack was a case of mistaken
identity. Following the Court proceedings in London, Admiral
Kidd returned to Washington, DC and called Boston, with whom
he was very close. "We have to be quiet," he said. "We can't
talk to the media."
"LBJ [President Lyndon B. Johnson] had ordered us to put
the lid on it. Don't talk about it," Boston told the WASHING-
TON REPORT. "And after 35 years of active duty, when I get an
order, even from a yellow-bellied superior, I follow those
orders. All this time I've kept quiet until this [explicative
deleted, Cristol] book came out."
After years of obeying those orders, Captain Boston broke
his silence on June 26, 2002, when he told MARINE CORPS TIMES
reporter Bryant Jordan the attack was deliberate (see "Israel
Attack on USS Liberty 'No Accident' Says Helms" published in
the Navy Times July 2, 2002).
Boston said he just had to speak out after reading
Cristol's claim that Kidd, in interviews conducted in the early
1990s, had said Israel's attack was not intentional. The captain
told the WASHINGTON REPORT that he finds it hard to believe
Cristol's version of interviews with the now deceased Admiral
Kidd, a man Boston greatly admired. "Admiral Kidd called me two
hours after an interview with Cristol," Boston related, "and
said, 'I think Cristol's an Israeli agent.'"
According to Boston, both he and Admiral Kidd always be-
lieved that, despite the Court's official conclusion, the
Israelis knew the ship was American. "I have strong patriotic
feelings," he explained. "I believe the CIA slogan, 'the truth
will out,' and hate the Israeli Mossad's motto: 'Win By
Deception.'"
"Madder Than Hell"
"Cristol now says I recanted my interview with the NAVY TIMES.
That makes me madder than hell," Boston said. "I have not
recanted one thing. If anything, now I'm going to speak out
louder than before and tell people what Admiral Kidd told me.
He and I were very close. He said, 'those sons of bitches
knew what they were doing when they killed innocent sunbathing
kids. They tried to sink that ship.'" Cristol may now be
kicking himself for waxing so eloquently about Boston's quali-
fications and skills, calling him a "man of integrity" on pg.
149 of his book.
LIBERTY survivor James Ennes, author the groundbreaking
book ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY, also had numerous conversations
with Admiral Kidd over the years. Kidd never characterized the
attack as an accident. In fact, Ennes says Kidd told him many
times, "You are on the right track, Jim. Just keep on probing.
Keep on doing what you're doing."
When asked why he thought the U.S. government has covered
up the attack for 36 years, Captain Boston replied: "Iraq,
Vietnam, the LIBERTY -- it's the same old story. When people
are in power they don't want to upset people who may help them
get reelected. Maybe people didn't want the world to see that
Israelis were slaughtering Egyptian prisoners of war. Maybe
Johnson was afraid of upsetting potential voters."
As a captain and staff legal officer in London, retired
Admiral Merlin Staring reviewed the Court of Inquiry's report
in 1967. Before he could finish, however, the report was taken
away. Based on what he read however, Staring, who later became
the top JAG officer, has said the evidence did not support the
"accidental" attack contention.
Last year Richard Helms, CIA director at the time of the attack,
agreed that "it was no accident." Helms also told MARINE CORPS
TIMES correspondent Jordan on May 29, 2002, "I've done all I can.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in court testifying
about the incident."
Helms' book, A LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER, written in collabo-
ration with William Hood, describes the LIBERTY attack as "one
of the most disturbing incidents in the six days [war]...Israeli
authorities subsequently apologized for the accident, but few in
Washington could believe that the ship had not been identified
as an American naval vessel."
Admiral Rufus Taylor, Helms' deputy, told his boss, "To me,
the picture thus far presents the distinct possibility that the
Israelis knew that LIBERTY might be their target and attacked
anyway..."
A fine article by David Walsh was released in the NAVAL
INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS on June 3, 2003, (available on the USNI
Web site at <http://www.usni.org>). Walsh's well-documented
article notes that even Clark Clifford, chairman of President
Johnson's, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and a great sup-
porter of Israel, called Israeli claims that the attack was
accidental "unbelievable." Clifford told the president, "Some-
thing had gone terribly wrong and then it had been covered up.
I never felt the Israelis had made adequate restitution or
explanation for their...unprovoked actions."
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Walsh's article adds,
had said there was "every reason to believe that the USS
LIBERTY was identified, or at least her nationality deter-
mined...one hour before the attack." Finally, Walsh notes,
former NSA and CIA director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, based
on his talks with NSA seniors at the time, "flatly rejected"
the Cristol/Israel thesis.
Former Chief of Naval Operations and Joint Chiefs of
Staff Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer has been on the record
for some time as saying the attack on the LIBERTY was delib-
erate. Among those agreeing with him are then-NSA Director
Marshall Carter, Carter's deputy, Louis Tordella, NSA
"LIBERTY Incident" analyst Walter Deeley, and Hayden Peake,
professor of intelligence history at the Joint Military
Intelligence College and a retired CIA officer.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence John Stenbit told an audi-
ence at a conference on "Transforming National Security and
Protecting the Homeland," held April 15 to 17 in Vienna, VA,
that the Israelis had warned the U.S. to move the USS
LIBERTY or they would sink it. His comments appeared in the
Israeli daily JERUSALEM POST and elicited a letter to the
editor in the online section of the magazine. Both the
letter and the article have mysteriously vanished from the
Web site.
In addition to the many Americans noted above, Israelis
and even Russians are adding to the public record on the attack.
Nikolay Cherkashin, who has spent years investigating the
LIBERTY tragedy, quoted a recently published Russian trans-
lation of Joseph Daichman's HISTORY OF THE MOSSAD, which states
that it was perfectly clear to Israelis that the LIBERTY was an
American ship and that the attack was committed to deprive the
U.S. "of its eyes and ears."
Daichman also argues that Israel had every right to attack
the American ship. If the LIBERTY had reported that Israeli
troops had moved from the Egyptian borders to the Syrian front,
the Soviets, if they were eavesdropping on the U.S., could have
warned the Arabs. Eliminating any eyes and ears, Israel was
able to attack Syria and capture the Golan Heights.
Daichman also speculates that Israel may have tried to sink
the ship and blame Egypt, and thus provoke a lethal U.S.
response. That theory is the theme of the documentary "DEAD IN
THE WATER," nominated for Best Documentary at the Vancouver Film
Festival, and the new OPERATION CYANIDE book by Peter Hounam.
Despite overwhelming new testimony, however, Cristol's
version of the attack on the LIBERTY is gaining notoriety.
Michael Oren's SIX DAYS OF WAR won an award for best history book
at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. According to Ennes,
Oren's chapter on the treacherous attack echoes Cristol's version,
which Ennes describes as "pure Israeli spin and truth distortion."
That's not surprising, of course, since in his book's
acknowledgements Oren thanks the Shalem Center, where he is a
senior fellow and "under whose auspices this book was researched
and written." The center describes its senior fellows program as
"promoting the research and writing of agenda-shaping work."
Its journal, AZURE, with editorial offices in Jerusalem and Wash-
ington, DC, "champions...a strong, free and Jewish State of
Israel for the future of the Jewish people."
"Cristol, though discredited at every turn, continues to
hawk his book," Ennes says, "arguing endlessly that the attack
was a tragic accident and that we who say otherwise are simply
either anti-Semites or blinded by blood and what he calls the
'fog of war.' Cristol will be promoting his book in August
and speaking at a large veterans' forum in Pigeon Forge, TN,"
Ennes told the WASHINGTON REPORT. He added, "Knowing the
views of most veterans who know about the LIBERTY, I cannot
imagine that Cristol will be well received."
"Will the LIBERTY remain a sort of 'Flying Dutchman,'
sailing forever around her poor men's souls?" Walsh concludes
his LIBERTY article by asking. Until a congressional investi-
gation gives survivors the opportunity to tell their stories
before they die, and Americans can examine top-secret reports
still shrouded in secrecy, the LIBERTY's ghost will not rest.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Delinda C. Hanley is news editor of the WASHINGTON REPORT ON
MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Note: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is one of
the few magazines in the world that supports the Liberty
survivors and where you can get the truth about the Middle
East. It supports the UN resolutions and traditional American
support for human rights, self-determination, and fair play.
If you've never seen this magazine, call 1-800-368-5788.
They'll send you a free sample copy, and hope to welcome you
as a subscriber.
-------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________________________
o__ I'll tell you the truth about the USS LIBERTY, visit
_.>/)_
(_) \(_) http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/
_____________________(updated constantly)__
http://www.ussliberty.org/
AGTR-5 | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:32 am Post subject: Zionist Bilge re USS LIBERTY in Ha'aretz |
| Subj: Zionist Bilge re USS LIBERTY in Ha'aretz
Date: 7/9/03 10:39:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time
To: nathang@haaretz.co.il
Mr. Guttman,
You might want to review the email (included below) which was sent to Aaron Brown and David Ensor of CNN yesterday. That email would apply to your Ha'aretz article as well:
Subj: Zionist Bilge re USS LIBERTY
Date: 7/9/03 8:50:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: nord@famvid.com
7/8/03 Ha'aretz News Flash (7/9 in Israel)
01:05 U.S. National Security Agency confirms sinking of USS Liberty by
Israel during 1967 Six-Day War was accident
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/315934.html
Subj: CNN's USS Liberty Segment on Aaron Brown's "Newsnight" Last Night
Date: 7/9/03 12:28:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time
To: aaron.brown@turner.com, david.ensor@turner.com
Mr. Brown and Mr. Ensor,
What apparent Zionist spinners you were with the USS Liberty attack segment on CNN's "Newsnight" last night.. Why didn't you discuss Captain Ward Boston (who was associated with the Naval Court of Inquiry as the legal counsel for it) and his mention in the Navy Times, Proceedings (published by the prestigious Naval Institute) and Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) articles which conveyed that the Naval Court of Inquiry (into the USS Liberty attack) was a sham and a fraud for the benefit of covering Israeli treachery against Americans. I had sent the recently released WRMEA article (included below) to you well before you put together the USS Liberty segment for broadcast last night, so you obviously knew what was included in it about Captain Boston (but you did not mention such in your piece). A. Jay Cristol's "Liberty Incident" book is based on the bogus Naval Court of Inquiry, so one does not have to take it as seriously as you both did.. In addition, what about the NSA material that is discussed in the following article by Eric Margolis?:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html
The Navy Times article from last summer (which includes Captain Boston conveying that the Naval Court of Inquiry was a sham) can be accessed by scrolling down to it after arriving at the following URL:
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/uss-liberty/2003/02/01/the-attack-on-the-uss-liberty.php
From the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Magazine (http://www.wrmea.com)
July/August 2003 Page 42
----------------------------------------------------------
NAVY CAPTAIN, OTHER OFFICIALS CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF
ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON USS LIBERTY
By Delinda C. Hanley
Nearly every former senior government and military official
who has examined Israel's 1967 attack on the USS LIBERTY agrees
it was deliberate. Now, thanks to the publication of Judge A.
Jay Cristol's book, THE LIBERTY INCIDENT: THE 1967 ATTACK ON A
U.S. NAVY SPY SHIP, they are going public. Cristol's book tour
included a December 2002 presentation at the Naval Historical
Center in Washington, DC, where he touted his version of the
attack which, based primarily on Israeli sources, he says was
unintentional. Ironically, it looks like what actually was un-
intentional is that Cristol's efforts to quell the debate have
had exactly the opposite effect.
Reading reports of Cristol's whitewash of the devastating
attack, which killed 34 American crewmen and wounded 172 others,
was the last straw for Captain Ward Boston, senior legal counsel
for the Navy's Court of Inquiry. Commander-in-Chief Naval Forces
Europe, Boston and the late Rear Admiral Isaac "Ike" Kidd were
given just one week by Admiral John McCain (father of Sen. John
McCain) to investigate the attack and gather testimony from
survivors still on board the crippled ship. Captain Boston asked
each witness to tell his story for a court stenographer.
"There is no question in my mind that those goddamned bastards
tried to kill everyone on board," Boston told the WASHINGTON REPORT.
"I was the counsel. I put witnesses on. I talked to kids never
exposed to combat who'd seen their friend's head blown off. Kids
who were crying as they told me what they'd gone through. Those
boys who had their heads blown away were not out fighting [the
Israelis]. They were sunbathing. They weren't even given a
chance to get to their machine guns."
Boston also watched the bodies of the dead carried out of
the hold, and saw boys throw up as they retrieved body parts
and mopped up after the shelling and torpedo attack. He recalled
seeing the shot-up U.S. flags that had clearly marked the ship
as an American vessel. Boston flatly dismisses the claims of
Cristol and Israel that Israeli fighter pilots mistook the
electronically advanced spy ship, complete with an 18-foot-wide
satellite dish, a microwave dish, and antennae, for the EL
QUSEIR, a 1920s-era Egyptian horse transport ship.
The Navy captain heard survivors' testimonies that the
Israelis even shot up the LIBERTY's lifeboats after they were
lowered into the waters to save the crew. That testimony was
excised from the official record at some point after it left
Boston's hands. (The tattered rafts now are proudly displayed
in an Israeli museum.) Boston recalls shaking hands with
LIBERTY skipper Commander William McGonagle, who had a big hole
in his leg. "He thanked me later for that handshake," Boston
recalled, "because it made some shrapnel pop out of his hand."
When Boston suggested going to Tel Aviv to have the Israelis
tell their side of the story, he was told, "You can't do it.
Come on home and present the evidence you have."
Armed with a gun to protect the evidence, which he had
attached to himself with handcuffs, Admiral Kidd, along with
Captain Boston took the records to London. As the week allotted
for gathering testimony came to an end, the team gathered 20
people to type up the report, which ended up being three inches
thick. After all the evidence painstakingly collected was turned
over to the U.S. Embassy there, the report may have been
altered. "I made lots of corrections which are no longer in the
report," Captain Boston told the WASHINGTON REPORT. "There are
even pages missing."
A U.S. Embassy official in London told Kidd that he and his
men must keep quiet. Ten days after the attack, the Navy's Court
of Inquiry, despite all the evidence to the contrary, somehow
exonerated Israel and ruled the attack was a case of mistaken
identity. Following the Court proceedings in London, Admiral
Kidd returned to Washington, DC and called Boston, with whom
he was very close. "We have to be quiet," he said. "We can't
talk to the media."
"LBJ [President Lyndon B. Johnson] had ordered us to put
the lid on it. Don't talk about it," Boston told the WASHING-
TON REPORT. "And after 35 years of active duty, when I get an
order, even from a yellow-bellied superior, I follow those
orders. All this time I've kept quiet until this [explicative
deleted, Cristol] book came out."
After years of obeying those orders, Captain Boston broke
his silence on June 26, 2002, when he told MARINE CORPS TIMES
reporter Bryant Jordan the attack was deliberate (see "Israel
Attack on USS Liberty 'No Accident' Says Helms" published in
the Navy Times July 2, 2002).
Boston said he just had to speak out after reading
Cristol's claim that Kidd, in interviews conducted in the early
1990s, had said Israel's attack was not intentional. The captain
told the WASHINGTON REPORT that he finds it hard to believe
Cristol's version of interviews with the now deceased Admiral
Kidd, a man Boston greatly admired. "Admiral Kidd called me two
hours after an interview with Cristol," Boston related, "and
said, 'I think Cristol's an Israeli agent.'"
According to Boston, both he and Admiral Kidd always be-
lieved that, despite the Court's official conclusion, the
Israelis knew the ship was American. "I have strong patriotic
feelings," he explained. "I believe the CIA slogan, 'the truth
will out,' and hate the Israeli Mossad's motto: 'Win By
Deception.'"
"Madder Than Hell"
"Cristol now says I recanted my interview with the NAVY TIMES.
That makes me madder than hell," Boston said. "I have not
recanted one thing. If anything, now I'm going to speak out
louder than before and tell people what Admiral Kidd told me.
He and I were very close. He said, 'those sons of bitches
knew what they were doing when they killed innocent sunbathing
kids. They tried to sink that ship.'" Cristol may now be
kicking himself for waxing so eloquently about Boston's quali-
fications and skills, calling him a "man of integrity" on pg.
149 of his book.
LIBERTY survivor James Ennes, author the groundbreaking
book ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY, also had numerous conversations
with Admiral Kidd over the years. Kidd never characterized the
attack as an accident. In fact, Ennes says Kidd told him many
times, "You are on the right track, Jim. Just keep on probing.
Keep on doing what you're doing."
When asked why he thought the U.S. government has covered
up the attack for 36 years, Captain Boston replied: "Iraq,
Vietnam, the LIBERTY -- it's the same old story. When people
are in power they don't want to upset people who may help them
get reelected. Maybe people didn't want the world to see that
Israelis were slaughtering Egyptian prisoners of war. Maybe
Johnson was afraid of upsetting potential voters."
As a captain and staff legal officer in London, retired
Admiral Merlin Staring reviewed the Court of Inquiry's report
in 1967. Before he could finish, however, the report was taken
away. Based on what he read however, Staring, who later became
the top JAG officer, has said the evidence did not support the
"accidental" attack contention.
Last year Richard Helms, CIA director at the time of the attack,
agreed that "it was no accident." Helms also told MARINE CORPS
TIMES correspondent Jordan on May 29, 2002, "I've done all I can.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in court testifying
about the incident."
Helms' book, A LOOK OVER MY SHOULDER, written in collabo-
ration with William Hood, describes the LIBERTY attack as "one
of the most disturbing incidents in the six days [war]...Israeli
authorities subsequently apologized for the accident, but few in
Washington could believe that the ship had not been identified
as an American naval vessel."
Admiral Rufus Taylor, Helms' deputy, told his boss, "To me,
the picture thus far presents the distinct possibility that the
Israelis knew that LIBERTY might be their target and attacked
anyway..."
A fine article by David Walsh was released in the NAVAL
INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS on June 3, 2003, (available on the USNI
Web site at <http://www.usni.org>). Walsh's well-documented
article notes that even Clark Clifford, chairman of President
Johnson's, Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and a great sup-
porter of Israel, called Israeli claims that the attack was
accidental "unbelievable." Clifford told the president, "Some-
thing had gone terribly wrong and then it had been covered up.
I never felt the Israelis had made adequate restitution or
explanation for their...unprovoked actions."
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Walsh's article adds,
had said there was "every reason to believe that the USS
LIBERTY was identified, or at least her nationality deter-
mined...one hour before the attack." Finally, Walsh notes,
former NSA and CIA director Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, based
on his talks with NSA seniors at the time, "flatly rejected"
the Cristol/Israel thesis.
Former Chief of Naval Operations and Joint Chiefs of
Staff Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer has been on the record
for some time as saying the attack on the LIBERTY was delib-
erate. Among those agreeing with him are then-NSA Director
Marshall Carter, Carter's deputy, Louis Tordella, NSA
"LIBERTY Incident" analyst Walter Deeley, and Hayden Peake,
professor of intelligence history at the Joint Military
Intelligence College and a retired CIA officer.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence John Stenbit told an audi-
ence at a conference on "Transforming National Security and
Protecting the Homeland," held April 15 to 17 in Vienna, VA,
that the Israelis had warned the U.S. to move the USS
LIBERTY or they would sink it. His comments appeared in the
Israeli daily JERUSALEM POST and elicited a letter to the
editor in the online section of the magazine. Both the
letter and the article have mysteriously vanished from the
Web site.
In addition to the many Americans noted above, Israelis
and even Russians are adding to the public record on the attack.
Nikolay Cherkashin, who has spent years investigating the
LIBERTY tragedy, quoted a recently published Russian trans-
lation of Joseph Daichman's HISTORY OF THE MOSSAD, which states
that it was perfectly clear to Israelis that the LIBERTY was an
American ship and that the attack was committed to deprive the
U.S. "of its eyes and ears."
Daichman also argues that Israel had every right to attack
the American ship. If the LIBERTY had reported that Israeli
troops had moved from the Egyptian borders to the Syrian front,
the Soviets, if they were eavesdropping on the U.S., could have
warned the Arabs. Eliminating any eyes and ears, Israel was
able to attack Syria and capture the Golan Heights.
Daichman also speculates that Israel may have tried to sink
the ship and blame Egypt, and thus provoke a lethal U.S.
response. That theory is the theme of the documentary "DEAD IN
THE WATER," nominated for Best Documentary at the Vancouver Film
Festival, and the new OPERATION CYANIDE book by Peter Hounam.
Despite overwhelming new testimony, however, Cristol's
version of the attack on the LIBERTY is gaining notoriety.
Michael Oren's SIX DAYS OF WAR won an award for best history book
at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. According to Ennes,
Oren's chapter on the treacherous attack echoes Cristol's version,
which Ennes describes as "pure Israeli spin and truth distortion."
That's not surprising, of course, since in his book's
acknowledgements Oren thanks the Shalem Center, where he is a
senior fellow and "under whose auspices this book was researched
and written." The center describes its senior fellows program as
"promoting the research and writing of agenda-shaping work."
Its journal, AZURE, with editorial offices in Jerusalem and Wash-
ington, DC, "champions...a strong, free and Jewish State of
Israel for the future of the Jewish people."
"Cristol, though discredited at every turn, continues to
hawk his book," Ennes says, "arguing endlessly that the attack
was a tragic accident and that we who say otherwise are simply
either anti-Semites or blinded by blood and what he calls the
'fog of war.' Cristol will be promoting his book in August
and speaking at a large veterans' forum in Pigeon Forge, TN,"
Ennes told the WASHINGTON REPORT. He added, "Knowing the
views of most veterans who know about the LIBERTY, I cannot
imagine that Cristol will be well received."
"Will the LIBERTY remain a sort of 'Flying Dutchman,'
sailing forever around her poor men's souls?" Walsh concludes
his LIBERTY article by asking. Until a congressional investi-
gation gives survivors the opportunity to tell their stories
before they die, and Americans can examine top-secret reports
still shrouded in secrecy, the LIBERTY's ghost will not rest.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Delinda C. Hanley is news editor of the WASHINGTON REPORT ON
MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Note: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is one of
the few magazines in the world that supports the Liberty
survivors and where you can get the truth about the Middle
East. It supports the UN resolutions and traditional American
support for human rights, self-determination, and fair play.
If you've never seen this magazine, call 1-800-368-5788.
They'll send you a free sample copy, and hope to welcome you
as a subscriber.
-------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________________________
o__ I'll tell you the truth about the USS LIBERTY, visit
_.>/)_
(_) \(_) http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/
_____________________(updated constantly)__
http://www.ussliberty.org/
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