USS Liberty
Massacre Assisted By American President
Sinking Liberty
One of the more intriguing allegations surrounding the
Liberty incident is the claim that a United States Navy submarine was in
the area when the attack took place. A number of submarine crewmen have
surfaced anonymously to say that they were on one of several subs reported to
be in the area on intelligence-gathering missions. Some stated their belief
that photos were taken of the attack itself, but, fearing reprisals from the
government, none would go public with their claims. More recently, a crewman on the USS Amberjack, a
diesel-powered intelligence-gathering sub, has provided an account of his
ship’s activities on that day in June to two Liberty survivors. The
sailor, Larry Bryant, agreed to go on radio with survivors Phil Tourney and
Ron Kukal to discuss his experiences but inexplicably got cold feet and broke
off contact. However, several extended phone conversations had already
provided some intriguing insights into what had taken place.......... Part of Hubal’s reluctance to discuss what he was doing on
that day might be traced to the fact that his vessel was carrying out a
clandestine operation in Egyptian waters as part of the Naval Security Group,
which was affiliated with the codebreakers of the National Security Agency.
Several civilians on the sub were performing the same tasks as their
counterparts who were intercepting and decoding radio transmissions on board
the Liberty. The Amberjack was equipped with a snorkel,
which enabled it to sit on the bottom of the sea immobile and listen to
electronic transmissions for long periods of time........ WikiLeaks has demonstrated that the United States has a
secret government that operates with little in the way or transparency or
restraint. Unfortunately, it has had that kind of government for a long time,
and the fate of the USS Liberty could be a manifestation of how the
White House might actually have colluded in the deaths of American servicemen
and then engaged in a cover-up to conceal what it had done.
Body Of Secrets
By James Bamford
Court Of Inquiry Perverted The Course Of Justice
USS Liberty....Watch 'em all!
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USS Liberty Massacre Assisted By American President
Retired men of the Navy, I am
deeply ashamed at the government cover up that keeps the American people
unaware of your bravery and sacrifice. Gentlemen, I salute you. You are
among the U.S. Navy’s greatest heroes. Sadly, you are unsung heroes.
SURVIVORS OF ISRAEL’S ATTACK ON THE USS
LIBERTY — 1967
by
Paul Findley
Former Republican Congressman
Paul Findley spoke the following words on the 45th anniversary of Israel’s
deliberate attack on the USS Liberty:
June 8, 1967 is a day that will live in
infamy. I am here to explain why. I state facts. I use plain language.
On that the day, the
state of Israel, publicly posing as a close friend of the United States,
almost succeeded in a deadly scheme to destroy a U.S. Navy ship and all
sailors aboard, then blame the crime on an Arab government.
Why?
To stir American fury
against all Arabs and bind America tightly in a permanent military alliance
with Israel.
That scheme almost
succeeded. Listen to the details.
The USS Liberty was
an intelligence -gathering ship patrolling the eastern Mediterranean in the
late days of the Arab-Israel war of 1967. Like today, America was Israel’s
only major benefactor in the world. President Lyndon Johnson’s secret
decisions that day played a major role in making the United States today
subservient to Israel. Sadly, the facts remain little known.
The Liberty had only
a couple of machine guns aboard.. Its identity was well marked. Its U.S.
flag fluttered in a brisk breeze throughout bright daylight hours of June 8,
1967. During morning hours, unmarked aircraft closely circled the Liberty.
An Israeli torpedo
boat, firing at close range, blasted a hole thirty-nine feet wide, only
inches above water line.
Miraculously, just
before the ship’s electrical equipment went dead, Seaman Terry Halbardier
crawled across open deck amid lethal strafing and strung a cable from a
damaged antenna to the transmission cabin. This made possible the broadcast
of a lone SOS appeal for help. Wounded by shrapnel during his crawl,
Halbardier’s bravery saved the Liberty and crew from total destruction. One
more torpedo hit would have sent the ship and crew to the bottom of the sea.
The distress message
was heard aboard the USS Saratoga, a carrier patrolling near Crete. In
response, the Saratoga launched fighter planes to defend the Liberty and
reported the launch to carrier group commander Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis
aboard the carrier America. Geis relayed the information to the White House.
Although aware the
Liberty was still under attack, Johnson ordered Geis to cancel the rescue
attempt. On the Saratoga’s bridge, distraught sailors watched as the U.S.
fighter craft turned back. On the ship’s radio they heard final frantic
pleas for help from the Liberty. Amid the pleas were background sounds of
shells exploding. Minutes later, Israeli commanders, by then aware of the
Liberty’s radioed plea for help, halted the attack.
Aboard the Liberty,
34 U.S. sailors were dead and 171 seriously wounded. Years later, two Navy
veterans gave me details of the verbal exchange when President Johnson
ordered the callback. Radioman Tony Hart, serving at a U.S. radio relay
station in Morocco, listened intently to the entire conversation between
President Johnson and Secretary McNamara in the White House and Admiral Geis
at sea. This is what Hart recalls Secretary McNamara said to Geis, “Get
those planes back on deck.” Geis replied, “But the Liberty is under attack
and needs help.” McNamara shouted, “Get those goddam planes back on deck.”
Aghast at the order, Geis, “Mr. Secretary, I wish to appeal that order to
higher authority.” McNamara said, “I already have the president’s authority
to call the planes back. He is right here.” Hart recalls Johnson then came
on the phone and said to Geis, “I don’t care if the ship goes down, I’m not
going to war with an ally over a couple of sailors.” The stunned admiral
said, “Aye, aye, sir.”
Until his death, the
admiral agonized over what, despite the presidential order, he might have
done to help the Liberty crew.
Over the years, I
have attended several reunions of Liberty survivors and remain in close
communication with several of them. During a recent gathering, retired
Commander David Lewis, the senior Liberty intelligence officer, provided new
details. He was critically injured in the assault and, after being airlifted
to the Saratoga sick bay, he was summoned to the private cabin of Admiral
Geis to hear details of the call-back. The deeply shaken admiral told Lewis
he feared he would be ordered to remain silent about his verbal exchange
with the president and McNamara. He wanted Lewis, as a senior officer on the
Liberty, to know exactly what was said.
Commander Davis told
me, “Johnson’s order was probably the first time in history U.S. military
forces were refused permission to help defend a U.S. Navy ship under
attack.” Israeli officials, caught in a premeditated crime against a U.S.
Navy ship, admitted the attackers were Israeli, then falsely claimed the
assault was a case of mistaken identity. What a cruel lie.
Johnson accepted
Israel’s lie without protest, although convincing evidence the assault was
deliberate was already available at highest levels of his administration.
The president quickly
dispatched Admiral Isaac C. Kidd and staff to carry out what from the start
was a bogus Court of Inquiry. Before leaving. Kidd was instructed to issue a
finding that cleared Israel of any blame.
Kidd and staff
traveled to the Mediterranean, where the admiral personally threatened
surviving crewmen, some of them still in hospital beds. Seaman John
Hrankowski, one of the badly injured survivors, described the scene.
“Admiral Kidd put on the stars and his uniform cap and said sternly: ‘If you
tell anyone what actually happened, you will pay a fine, or go to prison, or
worse.’” Hrankowski recalled: “We trembled. I was scared. He didn’t have to
explain what the word worse meant.” After a week’s tour that included only
limited, superficial interviews, Kidd’s group issued a finding that absolved
Israel of any wrongdoing. Forty years later, retired Navy Captain Ward
Boston, the chief legal officer who had traveled with Admiral Kidd, publicly
confessed that both he and Kidd privately believed at the time of the
inquiry the assault was deliberate. In a public, sworn statement distributed
widely, Boston stated that before the inquiry began, Johnson ordered Kidd to
issue a finding that cleared Israel of blame. Even today U.S. officials
cling to the fiction of mistaken identity, acting as if Boston’s confession
never occurred. Official navy records have been scrubbed clean of any
reference to the launching of rescue aircraft or their callback on
presidential order.
Kidd, already a
distinguished senior four-star admiral, should have refused the presidential
order. He should have upheld time-honored tradition by refusing to engage in
deceit. By telling the truth, the American people—and the Congress–would
know of the crime committed by Israel and likely prompt our government to
proceed carefully in any future dealings with Israel.
You may ask: Why
would Israel accept the high risk of public disclosure when it attempted to
destroy the Liberty and its crew?
Commander Lewis told
me he believes Israel wanted to sink the ship with no survivors, and then
blame the crime on Egypt. This, he said, would create anti-Arab fury in the
United States so intense Congress would declare war on Egypt and its Arab
allies. Davis added, “They wanted us to be in the war to consolidate their
gains.
They feared that
without active [U.S.] support [of Israel] world opinion would have forced
Israel to withdraw from captured lands.” Lewis believes Israel’s scheme, if
successful, would have locked America tightly and permanently with Israel
and against Arabs.
Forty years later,
the cover up was lifted but only slightly. Halbardier received the Silver
Star medal for bravery.
In a supreme example
of irony, Israel’s attempt to destroy the U.S. ship and crew did not damage
the U.S.-Israeli relationship. The cover-up was so swift and so successful
U.S. support of Israel’s war agenda actually emerged greatly magnified.
After the Liberty assault, aid to Israel increased from a trickle to a
rising flood–unconditional financial, military, and diplomatic support of
Israel, ultimately costing America billions of dollars and hundreds of
lives.
We are honored to
have survivors of the Liberty with us today. I am a Navy veteran from World
War II.
Retired men of the
Navy, I am deeply ashamed at the government cover up that keeps the American
people unaware of your bravery and sacrifice. Gentlemen, I salute you. You
are among the U.S. Navy’s greatest heroes. Sadly, you are unsung heroes. See the original BBC documentary
video
here.
Paul Findley :Author,
speaker and pundit Paul Findley served in the
United States Congress for 22 years representing central Illinois.
Before his Congressional service, Mr. Findley served as a Naval officer with
the Seabees in the Pacific in World War II, followed by work as a newspaper
editor in Jacksonville, Illinois.
Paul Findley on Israel
Lyndon Baines Johnson, the President of America betrayed America, the men of
the US 6th Fleet and his oath of office.
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The attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli warplanes
and torpedo boats on June 8, 1967 has almost faded from memory, but new
evidence suggests that the White House might actually have had prior knowledge
that the ship would be struck by Israel’s armed forces. In the worst attack
ever carried out on a U.S. Naval vessel in peacetime, 34 American sailors and
civilian personnel were killed and 171 more wounded in the two hour assault,
which was clearly intended to sink the intelligence-gathering vessel operating
in international waters collecting information on the ongoing Six-Day War
between Israel and its Arab neighbors...............
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I thought the
USSR was vicious and dangerous. It was but the American
government has its ugly side too.
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Israeli communications said to prove IAF knew Liberty was U.S. ship
The Israel Air Force warplanes and
Israel Navy warships that attacked the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, at the
height of the Six-Day War, were aware that the vessel was an American spy
ship, according to new testimony published Thursday in the Chicago Tribune.
The report stated that the U.S. National Security Agency - to which the
intelligence gathering ship belonged - was able to intercept IAF
communications according to which, at some stage, the pilots identified the
ship as American but were nonetheless instructed to push ahead with the
attack.
According to the report, some of the transcripts and intelligence
information have disappeared, while the rest can be found in U.S. government
archives.
Oliver Kirby, the NSA's deputy director for operations at
the time of the Liberty attack, is quoted by the Tribune as confirming the
existence of the transcripts, saying he personally read them.
"They said, 'We've got him in the zero,'" Kirby was quoted as saying,
"whatever that meant - I guess the sights or something. And then one of them
said, 'Can you see the flag?' They said 'Yes, it's U.S, it's U.S.' They said
it several times, so there wasn't any doubt in anybody's mind that they knew
it.".........
The report also states that then U.S. defense secretary Robert McNamara
ordered jets that had been dispatched to assist the Liberty turned around.
The Tribune quotes J.Q. "Tony" Hart, then a chief petty officer assigned to
a U.S. Navy relay station in Morocco that handled communications between
Washington and the 6th Fleet, as saying that he listened in as McNamara
said, "President [Lyndon] Johnson is not going to go to war or embarrass an
American ally over a few sailors."
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A Jew writes
about American sources. Disinterested? Taking it down the middle? Unbiased?
Believe it if you want but even then it is pretty damning.
Tells us about signals Jews
sent when they attacked the Liberty knowing full well that it was American. It
seems they lost MOST of their Arabic speakers then. That is gross incompetence.
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As survivors have frequently pointed out, Liberty men were
not permitted to speak freely and were directed to reply only to the questions
asked. Some men who wished to testify were not permitted to do so. George
Golden, who was the second ranking man to survive the attack, was severely
limited in the testimony he was permitted to provide. Jim Ennes, who was Officer
of the Deck during most of the daylight reconnaissance and could personally
testify to the closeness and frequency of overflying aircraft and other key
details, provided a sworn statement from his hospital bed, but this statement
was not permitted into evidence. Jim's hand-written deck logs for his watch were
key evidence, but they were not entered into the record. Instead, they were
rewritten and signed by someone else, which is a violation of Navy Regulations.
When you read the "Findings of Fact," look for supporting testimony. Navy
Regulations require that all findings of fact be supported by evidence in the
record. In this case, such evidence is often absent. For example, where the
court finds that the flag may not have been seen by the attacking pilots because
it may have hung limp at the mast on a windless day, all the evidence in the
record points in the opposite direction, indicating that the flag was clearly
displayed in adequate wind to hold it aloft for the pilots to see. The court
also had access to and reviewed the Ship's Weather Log which showed that there
was ample wind at all times to hold a flag aloft and clearly displayed. Yet the
court chose to ignore that log and did not enter it into the record. The careful
reader will find numerous other discrepancies in the way the hearing was
conducted.
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A stitch up
carried out by career officers who cared more about their pensions than murder.
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Paul Findley speaking on 45th anniversary of Israel’s deliberate attack
on the USS Liberty
The
attack began at 2 p.m. and lasted more than an hour. When Israeli aircraft
shot Liberty’s U.S. flag to pieces, a larger one was immediately hoisted in
its place. Flying low, the planes strafed the deck with rocket fire and
napalm, disabled all antennae, punctured the hull with hundreds of holes.
When the ship seemed doomed, life rafts made of rubber were lowered into the
sea but fighter planes shot them to pieces.
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The truth is the first casualty of war.
Author : Former Congressman Paul Findley
Author : Former Congressman Paul Findley
Painting of Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, Sr.