USS Liberty incident

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a U.S. Navy intelligence ship, USS Liberty (AGTR-5), in international waters near the Sinai Peninsula, north of El Arish, by Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab States. The attack killed 34 U.S. servicemen and wounded 173.

External links

U.S. government sites

• Additional information released by the National Security Agency on July 2003, including audio recordings (mostly in Hebrew), their transcripts (in English), follow-up reports, and a report originally released in 1999.
• Naval Historical Center, featuring photographs of the ship and crew, and the aftermath of the attack.

Sources claiming attack was deliberate

• The website of the Veterans of USS Liberty, run by Jim Ennes, including a wide variety of documents, photographs, and responses to authors who argue that the attack was a mistake.
• USS Liberty Court of Inquiry, run by the general legal counsel of the Liberty Veterans Association. This contains hundreds of documents and evidence on the attack. The site is seen as a subsidary of Ennes' site.
• USS Liberty, by John Gidusko, Communications Officer aboard the USS Liberty
• USS LIBERTY: Public History vs. Dissenting History, By John Borne
• Possible strategic and political backgrounds by Eric Margolis, foreign correspondent for the Toronto Sun.
• Assault on Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years by Jim Ennes at Washington-Report
• Affidavit by Ward Boston, senior legal counsel of the Navy's inquiry, that Johnson and McNamara ordered a conclusion of mistaken identity despite "overwhelming evidence to the contrary"
• Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Israel Deliberately Attacked US Ship, Lebanon Daily Star, January 21, 2004.
• Naval Institute Proceedings: Friendless Fire? by David Walsh
• San Diego Union-Tribune: Lifting the "fog of war" by David Walsh

Sources claiming attack was a mistake

• (NSA) Memos show Liberty attack was an error
• The Liberty Incident, by Naval Aviator and JAG A. Jay Cristol. Includes original documents, as well as rebuttals to various pro-attack theories and articles.
• The New Republic: Unfriendly Fire by historian Michael Oren
• Pages devoted to USS Liberty Incident maintained by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, including a collection of contemporaneous diplomatic documents and telegrams.
• USS 'Liberty' hit was unintentional, says CIA
• Pilot who bombed 'Liberty' talks to 'Post - interview with pilot (Yiftah Spector) who led attack
• Exclusive: Liberty attack tapes revealed - transcript of IAF recordings of radio traffic during the attack.
• A preview from the book The Liberty Incident, by A. Jay Cristol