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Blood in the Water - How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty (Hardcover)
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Blood in the Water - How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty (Hardcover)
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Presents evidence suggesting collusion between US and Israeli
intelligence in the attack on a US naval surveillance vessel during
the Six-Day War and the more than fifty-year long cover-up. On June
8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an unarmed intelligence ship reporting to
the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the auspices of the National
Security Agency, was positioned in international waters off the
coast of Egypt when it was attacked with deadly violence by
unmarked jet planes firing rockets and machine guns and throwing
napalm onto its deck. This ambush was followed by a torpedo strike
that blew a forty-foot hole in the starboard side of the ship.
Lacking the capacity to defend themselves, thirty-four sailors were
killed and 174 wounded, many for life. By the end of the day,
Israel had confessed to having been the aggressor, simultaneously
arguing that the attack had been an "accident" and a "mistake." The
facts said otherwise. So intense and sustained was the attack - it
lasted for nearly an hour and a half - so specific was the aiming
for the antennae and satellite dish on deck, that it was scarcely
credible that Israel's aggression was not deliberate; such was the
view of Marshall Carter, the director of the National Security
Agency, his deputy director Louis Tordella, and Richard Helms, the
Director of Central Intelligence. Based on interviews with more
than forty survivors, knowledgeable political insiders, and Soviet
archives of the period, investigative writer Joan Mellen presents
evidence suggesting complicity between US and Israeli intelligence
in the attack on Liberty and the more than fifty-year long
cover-up. What were the underlying motives? Was this a false flag
operation conducted in the midst of the Six-Day War? Was it
conceivable that Israel would have initiated such an operation
without a green light from the United States? For the sake of
justice, truth and the murdered and surviving sailors, this is a
story demanding to be told.
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