The USS Liberty update

From American Free Press, available online at:

http://www.americanfreepress.net/01_...iral_says.html

Admiral Says USS Liberty Crew Left to Die by Lyndon Johnson

By Adm. Thomas Moorer January 24, 2004

After State Department officials and historians assembled in Washington,
D.C. to discuss the 1967 war in the Middle East, I am compelled to speak out
about one of U.S. history's most shocking cover-ups.

On June 8, 1967, Israel attacked our proud naval ship-the USS
Liberty-killing 34 American servicemen and wounding 172. Those men were then
betrayed and left to die by our own government.

U.S. military rescue aircraft were recalled, not once, but twice, through
direct intervention by the Johnson administration. Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara's cancellation of the Navy's attempt to rescue the Liberty,
which I personally confirmed from the commanders of the aircraft carriers
America and Saratoga, was the most disgraceful act I witnessed in my entire
military career.

To add insult to injury, Congress, to this day, has failed to hold formal
hearings on Israel's attack on this American ship. No official investigation
of Israel's attack has ever permitted the testimony of the surviving crew
members.

A 1967 investigation by the Navy, upon which all other reports are based,
has now been fully discredited as a cover-up by its senior attorney.

Capt. Ward Boston, in a sworn affidavit, recently revealed that the court
was ordered by the White House to cover up the incident and find that
Israel's attack was "a case of mistaken identity."

Some distinguished colleagues and I formed an independent commission to
investigate the attack on the USS Liberty. After an exhaustive review of
previous reports, naval and other military records, including eyewitness
testimony from survivors, we recently presented our findings on Capitol
Hill. They include:

.. Israeli reconnaissance aircraft closely studied the Liberty during an
eight-hour period prior to the attack, one flying within 200 feet of the
ship. Weather reports confirm the day was clear with unlimited visibility.
The Liberty was a clearly marked American ship in international waters,
flying an American flag and carrying large U.S.

Navy hull letters and numbers on its bow.

Despite claims by Israeli intelligence that they confused the Liberty with a
small Egyptian transport, the Liberty was conspicuously different from any
vessel in the Egyptian navy. It was the most sophisticated intelligence ship
in the world in 1967. With its massive radio antennae, including a large
satellite dish, it looked like a large lobster and was one of the most
easily identifiable ships afloat.



.. Israel attempted to prevent the Liberty's radio operators from sending a
call for help by jamming American emergency radio channels.

.. Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned lifeboats at close range that had
been lowered to rescue the most seriously wounded.

As a result, our commission concluded that:

.. There is compelling evidence that Israel's attack was a deliberate attempt
to destroy an American ship and kill her entire crew.

.. In attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder against U.S.
servicemen and an act of war against the United States.

.. The White House knowingly covered up the facts of this attack from the
American people.

.. The truth continues to be concealed to the present day in what can only be
termed a national disgrace.

What was Israel's motive in launching this attack? Congress must address
this question with full cooperation from the National Security Agency, the
Central Intelligence Agency and the military intelligence services.

The men of the USS Liberty represented the United States. They were attacked
for two hours, causing 70 percent of American casualties, and the eventual
loss of our best intelligence ship.

These sailors and Marines were entitled to our best defense. We gave them no
defense.

Did our government put Israel's interests ahead of our own? If so, why?

Does our government continue to subordinate American interests to Israeli
interests? These are important questions that should be investigated by an
independent, fully empowered commission of the American government.

The American people deserve to know the truth about this attack. We must
finally shed some light on one of the blackest pages in American naval
history. It is a duty we owe not only to the brave men of the USS Liberty,
but to every man and woman who is asked to wear the uniform of the United
States.

Why are you people still beating this dead horse? Its time to move on!
Here is a much more interesting incident, in which far more people
(all civilians) died:

3 July 1988: An Iran Air Airbus A300B2-203 (EP-IBU), flight IR655,
flying from Bandar Abbas to Dubai, was shot down over the Strait of
Hormuz by two SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS
Vincennes. At about the time the Airbus took off, the Vincennes' radar
picked up a brief Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) mode 2 response,
which led to the mistaken identification of the Airbus as a hostile
Iranian F-14 aircraft. The USS Vincennes issued 7 challenges on the
Military Air Distress (MAD) frequency (243 MHz), addressed to 'Iranian
aircraft', 'Iranian fighter' or 'Iranian F-14'. These messages were
followed by three challenges on the International Air Defence (IAD)
frequency. A number of the AEGIS radar operators on the Vincennes
misread the displays and reported that the incoming plane was descending
with an increasing speed. This fact, and the fact that the aircraft
didn't respond to the challenges led to the decision to launch two
missiles against the perceived hostile target. All 290 passengers and
crew onboard the Airbus were killed.

David Lednicer wrote in message ...
Why are you people still beating this dead horse? Its time to move on!

It is past time to move on to the truth of the matter.

Here is a much more interesting incident, in which far more people
(all civilians) died:

3 July 1988: An Iran Air Airbus A300B2-203 (EP-IBU), flight IR655,
flying from Bandar Abbas to Dubai, was shot down over the Strait of
Hormuz by two SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles fired by the USS
Vincennes.

I'm pretty sure the truth of that matter has been out for quite some
time, though mostly ignored by the US press. The US officially has
accepted blame and paid compensation.

--

FF

Subject: The USS Liberty update
From: David Lednicer
Date: 2/2/04 9:16 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:


Why are you people still beating this dead horse? Its time to move on!

Just another Zionist Jew trying to get us to forget about Israeli treachery
against America.. Get a clue.. We are not going to move on until we get justice
for murdered Americans you traitor...

Subj: Admiral Moorer on Jewish Political Power
Date: 2/11/04 1:28:24 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: RePorterNoteBook
BCC: MORRIS434



Chris,

I just read your Newsmax.com article/tribute to Admiral Moorer via the
following URL:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti.../7/24328.shtml

However, I noticed that you didn't mention what Admiral Moorer did in his last
days (years) of his life with regard to blowing the lid off the ongoing USS
Liberty cover-up which is conveyed via the following URL:

http://www.couplescompany.com/Featur...s/AdmMoore.htm


Also, I noticed how you left out the warning that he conveyed below as well:

Admiral Moorer on the Jews

Here is a quote from a U. S. Navy Admiral, about something that we say so often
that we get tired of repeating ourselves.

Note the last sentence. This would be called "hate" by many people today,
especially suburban soccer-moms and brainwashed high-school students.

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"I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up to [the
Jews] ... They always get what they want. The Israelis know what is going on
all the time. I got to the point where I wouldn't write anything down. If the
American people understood what a grip these people have got on our government,
they would rise up in arms."

-Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

From Richard H. Curtiss's "A Changing Image: American Perceptions of the
Arab-Israeli Dispute." American Educational Trust, 1986, p. 267.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/njflyer.html

Chris, since you mentioned Hutchison Whampoa in your tribute to Admiral Moorer,
why haven't you included discussion about Richard Perle's connection to such
which is conveyed in the following piece?:

Forwarded:

[This confirms Ha'aretz as one of the world's great newspapers, along with the
Guardian and the Independent. We have nothing comparable in the U.S. -Paul]

"The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative
intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing
President Bush to change the course of history."

-Israeli Journalist Ari Shavit
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pa...?itemNo=280279

These are difficult days for the neo-conservative
hawks in the Bush administration. Their plans for
global domination are unravelling as quickly as Bush's
poll ratings are slipping, more and more pressure is
building from the press and public to expose the lies
that took America and the UK to war with Iraq; and now
a company that owns three of the neo-cons major
mouthpieces is in deep trouble and Richard Perle and
friends are desperately trying to keep control of the
company.

Hollinger International, which owns the Jerusalem
Post, Chicago Sun Times and the UK's Daily and Sunday
Telegraph, stepped up its battle with former Chief
Executive Lord Conrad Black on January 26th, filing a
lawsuit aimed at thwarting Black's bid to sell a
controlling stake in the newspaper publisher to
Britain's billionaire Barclay brothers. (Excuse the
alliteration). The Chicago-based owner of the Daily
and Sunday Telegraph said a committee of its
independent directors, together with interim CEO
Gordon Paris, also adopted a shareholder-rights plan,
or "poison pill", that would be triggered if control
changes hands without board approval. Sources close to
Hollinger have intimated that the lawsuit was filed at
the insistence of four other board members of
Hollinger apart from CEO Paris. Those four others are
believed to be Hollinger co-CEO and board member Peter
White; Executive Vice President Jack Boultbee; board
member Henry Kissinger and George W Bush's chief
foreign policy advisor and Hollinger International
director Richard Perle.

It is believed the committee would prefer to see
ownership of Hollinger in American hands, and has
mounted a campaign to persuade the likes of William
Kristol, editor of the right wing Weekly Standard, a
Murdoch published paper, and other wealthy businessmen
friendly to the Bush administration to form a
consortium to bid against the Barclay brothers for
control of the Hollinger empire. Since last year there
have been serious investigations into alleged misdeeds
at Black's Hollinger International, and these have
thrown up some interesting connections between Lord
Black, Hollinger and Richard Perle. Perle, whom some
refer to as "The Prince of Darkness", is considered to
be the "intellectual guru" of the hardline right wing
neo-conservative hawks in the Bush administration. He
has the "ear" of the President and is an advocate of
America using its military superiority to
"democratise" those countries around the world who
don't hold to American interests and principles.
However, examining just what Perle's interests and
principles are and what he has done and said over the
years is extremely revealing, as it appears there are
a great many conflicts of interest and even possible
treachery in Mr. Perle's past.

Let's start with Perle's work with the Project for a
New American Century (PNAC). Here is an organisation
that, as far back as 1997, was advocating the ousting
of Saddam Hussein, the take over of Iraqi oil, and the
eventual American take-over of oil in Iran and Saudi
Arabia. They called for the defeat of Syria and North
Korea and eventual American world domination by
military power.

In other words, Perle, along with the likes of Paul
Wolfowitz, Dov Zakheim, Douglas Feith, John Bolton,
Elliott Abrams, Dick Cheney and other founding members
of the PNAC now ensconced in the White House, was
calling on America to start a "total, continual war"
on those it considered were acting against America's
interests. As George W Bush said: "You're either with
us or against us".

John Pilger, the eminent British journalist, wrote the
following about Richard Perle: "I interviewed Perle
when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about
"total war", I mistakenly dismissed him as mad. He
recently used the term again in describing America's
"war on terror" saying: "This is total war. We are
fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them
out there. All this talk about first we are going to
do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is
entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let
our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it
entirely and we don't try to piece together clever
diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children
will sing great songs about us years from now."

Decide for yourself; completely, barking mad;
frighteningly dangerous; or both.

During his career Perle has, somewhat disingenuously,
laid claim to the moral high ground, telling anyone
who would listen that he was speaking and acting on
behalf of America's best interests. Yet a quick
investigation of Perle's past shows that he has other
interests at heart, some of which appear to be more
important than those close to home. Indeed, Perle
seems to be somewhat ambiguous with regards to just
exactly "where" he considers home to be.

Perle has an M.A. in political science from Princeton
University and a B.A. in international relations from
the University of Southern California. During the
Carter administration Perle was part of the "Committee
on the Present Danger", which believed that the US was
about to be overrun by the Soviet Union. The committee
advocated huge military budgets and was totally
opposed to any and all arms treaties with the Soviets.


He was a member of the U.S. Senate staff between 1969
and 1980 and during this time Perle was expelled from
Senator Henry (Soop) Jackson's office after the
National Security Agency caught him passing highly-
classified National Security information to the
Israeli Embassy. He was granted a pardon for these
un-American (treasonous?) activities by George H W
Bush. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm,
Soltam. From 1981 until 1987 he was assistant
secretary of defence for international security policy
in the Reagan administration, where he once again
opposed arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union.


He has been one of US deputy defence secretary Paul
Wolfowitz's best friends since 1969, as well as the
mentor of Douglas Feith, the under secretary of
defence whose Office of Special Plans oversaw
preparations for the Iraq invasion and the postwar
occupation. A longtime ally of both Defence Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, Perle
was described by the Washington Post last year as
enjoying "profound influence over Bush policies".

Since 1987 Perle has served as Resident Fellow of the
pro Israeli American Enterprise Institute for Public
Policy Research. He returned to the US administration
under Bush Jr. in 2001 as chairman of the Pentagon's
Defence Policy Board, a post he was forced to resign
over his links to the bankrupt telecoms company Global
Crossing. Though he resigned as chairman of the
Defence Policy Board, he still attends their meetings.


Now comes an interesting connection between Canadian
born British peer Lord Conrad Black, Hollinger
International and this so called "Prince of Darkness".
Perle is co-chairman of the investment bank Morgan
Crucible. He is also chairman and chief executive
officer of Hollinger Digital Inc. and a director of
the Jerusalem Post. Both these companies are currently
owned by the embattled Lord Black, whose Hollinger
Corporation, which owns the Jerusalem Post, Chicago
Sun Times and the UK's Daily and Sunday Telegraph is
currently under investigation regarding alleged
bribery, money-laundering, misuse of corporate assets
and unauthorised payments to Lord Black and former
directors of Hollinger International. The companies
regulatory filing to the Security Exchange Commission
also disclosed that Hollinger made a $2.5m investment
in Trireme Associates LLC, a venture-capital firm
founded by Richard Perle which had Perle's good friend
Henry Kissinger as a director. The company is the
general partner of Trireme Partners LP, a
venture-capital fund co-managed by Mr. Perle and
Gerald P. Hillman, who also served on the Pentagon's
Defence Policy Board.

In December of last year, it was revealed that Perle
lobbied on behalf of Boeing for an $18 billion
government contract to provide air tankers to the
Pentagon. In exchange, Boeing made a $20 million
"investment" in Trireme Partners. Mr. Perle holds a 5%
stake in Trireme and Lord Black is a member of
Trireme's strategic advisory board. Mr. Kissinger
served on the advisory board until this year, when he
resigned because he had reached the firm's mandatory
retirement age, according to Mr. Hillman. Hollinger's
internal investigators are also looking at an
investment by Hollinger's digital unit in a company
that includes Mr. Perle as a shareholder. According to
people familiar with the matter, Hollinger Digital
invested $14 million in a U.K. based technology firm
called Cambridge Display Technology (C.D.T.). Mr.
Perle was a co-chairman of Hollinger Digital and was
paid a salary by the company to help find investments.
The investment, confirmed by C.D.T. Press Officer
Terry Nicklan, was part of a syndicate led by Kelso
Co. and Gerald P Hillman's company Hillman Capital
that acquired control of C.D.T. for about $130
million. Mr. Hillman confirmed that Mr. Perle also
bought a stake in Cambridge Display Technology.

Mr. Perle also served as a director of GeoBiotics,
Inc. from 1996 to 2000 and currently serves as a
director of E.Certify and NAPRO Biotherapeutics, Inc.
He is also a director of the British software company
Autonomy, Inc. Autonomy supplies the US Department of
Defence, the Department of Homeland Security, and
Britain's GCHQ and MI6 with tools that enable the
"bugging" of computer communications. When the New
Yorker's Seymour Hersh documented Perle's business
dealings in the Middle East on behalf of the venture
capital firm Trireme, Perle threatened to sue the
journalist, saying that he was the "the closest thing
American journalism has to a terrorist."

Hersh's article, "Lunch with the Chairman," discussed
possible conflicts of interest resulting from Perle's
dual role as chairman of the Defence Policy Board and
as a partner for Trireme, a company that invests in
defence-related industries. Hersh recounts how Perle
met with Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi billionaire arms
dealer, and Harb Zuhair, an Iraqi born Saudi
businessman, in early 2003. Various people interviewed
by Hersh, including Khashoggi and Zuhair, indicated
that Perle and Trireme seemed to be sending the
message that in return for Saudi investment backing,
the "Chairman" would use his Pentagon connections to
influence US policy.

This is perhaps not the first time Perle has crossed
paths with Kashoggi. During the Reagan Administration,
when Perle was assistant secretary of defence for
international security policy, Khashoggi was one of
the middlemen between Oliver North, the White House,
and the mullahs in Iran in what became known as the
Iran-Contra scandal. Kashoggi was, with US government
approval, supplying Iran with weapons in return for
American hostages, whilst at the same time arming the
Contra guerillas in Nicaragua in their fight against
the democratically elected Sandanista government. A
congressional investigation revealed that Khashoggi
had borrowed much of the money for the weapons from
the disgraced Bank of Credit and Commerce
International (B.C.C.I.), whose collapse, in 1991,
defrauded thousands of depositors and led to years of
inquiry and litigation. Investigations revealed that
B.C.C.I. was involved in a massive money laundering
operation and as a conduit for illegal financial
transfers, many involving terrorist organisations such
as al-Qa'eda.

Soon after the Hersh piece was published, columnist
Maureen Dowd and other journalists documented Perle's
relationship to Global Crossing, a bankrupt
communications giant and defence contractor that was
seeking Pentagon permission to be sold to the Asian
company Hutchinson Wampoa. This is the same Hutchinson
Wampoa whose interests in Panama sparked a loud and
nasty round of conservative hand-wringing in the US
about a Chinese attempt to take control of the Panama
Canal. Although Perle denied any wrongdoing, he
admitted through his attorney that he was hired by
Global Crossing to consult with a reluctant Defence
Department about the deal.

Perle originally came to government from the the
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). There
are those who claim he has Israeli citizenship and is
an agent of Mossad, the feared Israeli secret service,
whose motto is "By way of deception, thou shalt do
war".

Now, Perle has published a new book, along with fellow
AEI and JINSA member David Frum, the Bush speech
writer who coined the phrase "Axis of Evil". In the
book, entitled "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on
Terror" Perle and Frum demand that any talks with
North Korea require the "complete and immediate
abandonment of its nuclear programme". The book urges
that America "Prepare to launch pre-emptive strikes
against North Korea's nuclear facilities unless
Pyongyang "immediately surrenders all of its nuclear
material, closes its missile bases and agrees to the
permanent presence of international inspectors". It
goes on to call for a "Cuba-style military blockade
and overt preparations for war, including the rapid
pullback of US forces from the inter-Korean border so
that they move out of range of North Korean
artillery".

Such action will "prompt China to oust its ally, Kim
Jong-il, and install a saner regime in North Korea".

In what they call a "manual for victory", the two
authors describe an extremely dangerous world in which
the greatest current evil, "militant Islam", can be
found everywhere. Militant Islam "seeks to overthrow
our civilization and remake the nations of the West
into Islamic societies imposing on the whole world its
religion and law", write the authors. The book
advocates cutting off arms supplies and the flow of
oil from Iraq to Syria, and pursuing suspected
"terrorists" into Syrian territory, unless Damascus
implements a thorough "Western reorientation" of its
policies, economy and political system.

It also seeks to help "dissidents" overthrow the
government of Iran - "the regime must go" say Perle
and Frum.

It demands countries "Cease criticizing Israel for
taking actions against Hamas and Hezbollah. The
distinction between Islamic terrorism against Israel,
on the one hand, and Islamic terrorism against the
United States and Europe, on the other, cannot be
sustained."

Perle and Frum also urge Mr Bush to "tell the truth
about Saudi Arabia". Wealthy Saudis, some of them
royal princes, fund al-Qa'eda, they write. They claim
the Saudi government backs "terror-tainted Islamic
organisations spreading their extremist version of
Islam throughout the

Muslim world and into Europe and North America".
However, no mention is made in the book of Bush's
connections to the Saudi princes and indeed the Bush
family's very close ties to the bin Laden family
through George H W Bush's directorship of the
secretive Carlyle Group, an investment firm managing
some $14 billion in assets, including stakes in a
number of defence-related companies. On September
27th. 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported that:

"George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works
for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia
through the Carlyle Group, an international investment
consulting firm. The senior Bush has met with the bin
Laden family at least twice."

It also seems that Perle has forgotten his connections
to Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi billionaire arms dealer
and Iraqi born Saudi Harb Zuhair with whom he has had
dealings. The word duplicity comes to mind.

Finally, in a demand that rivals Bush's assertion that
the French have no word for "entrepreneur" the book
calls for tough action against France. "We should
force European governments to choose between Paris and
Washington," it states.

So, here we have a man who is advocating "total and
continual" war against anyone who dares to speak out
against the interests of the United States of America
and its "friends". They believe China will cave in to
American threats against North Korea and turn against
their long term friend Kim Jong-il. Perle honestly
believes that America, already militarily lacking, can
overthrow the regimes in Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia
and bring "American democracy" to these countries by
military force without so much as a whisper from other
Islamic countries. And in a final act of revenge and
hubris, Perle threatens France, and by extension all
of Europe, with making a choice between Washington or
Paris. If Europe decides on Paris, what's Perle's
advice? Nuke Marseilles?

Given that Perle, who said Americans would be welcomed
as "liberators" in Iraq, has got things so badly wrong
about that country, does anyone believe that he's got
it right about Iran, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Syria?
Perhaps people are now seeing that Perle is not quite
the "intellectual" some portray him to be, just
another mad warmonger who wants to "bring on"
Armageddon. He argues for America to sacrifice its
young people on the altar of US imperialism for the
benefit of a small group of ruthless, greedy,
megalomaniacs who have continually lied to the
American public and do not have the best interests of
the United States as their prime objective.

Throughout the entire diatribe of "An End to Evil: How
to Win the War on Terror" there is no mention of
perhaps the one thing that could de- escalate this
so-called "war on terror" and perhaps begin to heal
the wounds between Islam and the West. Surely an
"intellectual" would be able to understand the main
source of the problems between Islam and the West. But
no. No mention of Israel's continuing belligerence
against Palestinians, no mention of Israel's huge
dividing wall, no mention of Israel's continued
expansion of it's settlements and no mention of the
implementation of the road map for peace. Just total,
continual war.

John Pilger said he "mistakenly" thought Richard Perle
was mad. I agree. What Richard Perle is transcends
madness. This man wishes to extinguish perhaps four
billion people in a never ending total war against
those who disagree with American policies. The world
should beware Richard Perle and his friends. They are
the devils in the White House

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an
invisible government owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To
destroy this invisible government, to befoul the
unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt
politics is the first task of the statesmanship of
today." Theodore Roosevelt 1906.

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Professor F. Littell has said "You can't discuss the truth of the holocaust.
That is a distortion of the concept of free speech. The United States should
emulate West Germany, which outlaws such exercises."--Mind-boggling! Don't you
think?
http://64.143.9.197/jhr/v11/v11p365_Bennett.html
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"Deep down, I believe that a little anti-Semitism is a good thing for the Jews
- reminds us who we are." --Jay Lefkowitz (NYT Magazine. 12 F. 1995, 65) Jay
Lefkowitz is now Deputy assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. A sick
man! Don't you think?

Chinese Axiom:
When things are investigated, knowledge is extended.

When knowledge is extended, the will becomes sincere.

When the will is sincere, the mind is correct.

When the mind is correct, the self is cultivated.

--Confucius

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I am not an anti-Semite
---Michael Santomauro

"An anti-Semite is someone that the Jews hate."
---Joe Sobran

Another way of putting it:
An anti-Semite used to be someone who does not like Jews; now it is
someone who the Jews do not like.

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EX-OFFICER ALLEGES COVER-UP IN PROBE OF SPY SHIP ATTACK
By James W. Crawley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 17, 2004

Ward Boston is an unassuming octogenarian who resides in a gated
community on Coronado's Silver Strand.

A retired Navy captain, he hardly attracts attention in a town
full of active-duty and retired sailors.

Yet Boston is in the maelstrom of a nearly 37-year-old
controversy surrounding Israel's deadly attack on the Navy's spy
ship Liberty during the Six-Day War with Egypt, Syria and
Jordan. The June 1967 attack killed 34 Americans and wounded
171.

Last October, Boston broke decades of silence and declared that
the Navy admiral who investigated the incident had been ordered
by President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara to conclude it was a case of mistaken identity, despite
evidence to the contrary.

As the chief counsel for the Navy's court of inquiry, Boston had
an insider's view.

"I didn't speak up earlier because I was told not to," Boston
said in an interview.

His revelation, repeated last month before a State Department
conference about the Six-Day War, has rekindled a smoldering
debate over how it happened and whether the United States and
Israel covered up the truth.

Anti-Israel factions portray Boston's words – true to his legal
background, memorialized in two affidavits but rarely spoken to
an audience larger than one person – as proof of Israel's guilt.

Israel's supporters, including a federal bankruptcy judge who
researched the attack and wrote a book on it, say Boston is
lying. Some pin an anti-Semitic badge on his lapel.

On Web pages and through e-mail, an electronic brawl is raging
over Boston's disclosures among his admirers and detractors.

But, for the men who survived the attack, Boston's comments
endorse views smelted in cordite, blood and smoke.

"We feel we've been vindicated," said James Ennes, the Liberty's
officer of the deck the day of the attack, which left him
severely wounded.

"We've been saying for 37 years that the court of inquiry was a
fraud, that it was corrupted, that it ignored evidence and made
findings not supported by the evidence," said Ennes, whose book
about the incident claims it was a deliberate Israeli attack.

Boston's cover-up allegation is "enormously significant," said
author James Bamford, who has written several books about the
super-secret National Security Agency, which analyzed radio
intercepts from Liberty and other U.S. surveillance ships.

"It's equivalent to former Supreme Court (Chief) Justice Earl
Warren coming out and saying 'the Warren Commission report on
(the) Kennedy (assassination) – everything we said was not what
we believed, but we were pressured to say it,' " Bamford said.

"It puts an enormous shadow over everything that was in the
(Navy) report," he said.

Even with Boston's affidavits and some newly released documents
presented at the State Department conference, no consensus was
reached on whether the attack was deliberate, accidental or the
result of negligence.

---

The Liberty was a Navy spy ship, plain and simple.

Like its ill-fated sister vessel Pueblo, which was captured by
North Korea six months later, the Liberty was festooned with
antennas and its cargo holds were converted into top-secret
locked compartments lined with receivers where petty officers
eavesdropped on other nations' militaries.

During the Six-Day War, the Liberty loitered off the Sinai
Peninsula, listening to Israel's lightning victory over Egypt.

On the afternoon of June 8, 1967, Israeli jets strafed the ship.
Hours later, Israeli torpedo boats attacked. By the evening, 34
U.S. sailors were dead and 171 injured.

Israel said the attack was a terrible mistake caused by the
misidentification of the Liberty as an Egyptian vessel.
Investigations followed, including the Navy's court of inquiry.

That's when Ward Boston's involvement began.

---

If Hollywood had discovered Boston, he could have been the
real-life prototype for Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, one of the leads on
the television show "JAG."

In the Pacific during World War II, Boston flew harrowing
photo-reconnaissance missions over Tokyo and Iwo Jima in Navy
Hellcat fighters, sometimes making three passes over a single
target – once to take pre-bombing pictures, then joining other
planes in attacking the target and, finally, a post-attack pass
to photograph the damage.

After the war, Boston went to law school, passed the bar and
entered private practice. Meanwhile, he continued to fly Navy
fighters as a reservist, including its first jet, the FH-1
Phantom.

In the late 1940s, he joined the FBI and was assigned to field
offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. During the Korean War,
he rejoined the Navy, this time as a JAG officer.

By June 1967, Boston was legal officer for then-Rear Adm. Isaac
Kidd Jr. when the flag officer was assigned to head the hastily
convened inquiry into the Liberty attack.

Unable to interview hospitalized sailors and Israeli military
and civilian officials, the investigative panel was given just a
week to examine the battered ship, interview survivors and
collect radio intercepts and other information.

Boston said it was obvious then who was responsible.

"There's no way in the world that it was an accident," Boston
said.

In his affidavits and a recent interview, Boston recounted how
he and Kidd discussed their conclusions about the survivors'
testimony.

"(Kidd) referred to the Israelis as 'murderous *******s,' "
Boston said.

After Kidd delivered the panel's report to Washington officials,
Boston said the admiral told him, "they aren't interested in the
facts or what happened. It's a political issue. They want to
cover it up." Then Kidd admonished Boston to keep silent.

Boston said Kidd told him privately that orders came from
Johnson and McNamara to find the incident was a mistake and not
a deliberate act.

There is no documentation to support Boston's account.

Kidd died in 1999 at 79 after a career topped by command of the
Atlantic Fleet. He never spoke of a cover-up.

The late '60s was the height of the Cold War between the United
States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets were backing the Arab
nations; the United States was allied with Israel. U.S. troops
were fully engaged in Vietnam and the United States was fearful
of growing Soviet influence, especially in the oil-rich Mideast.

Those who claim the attack was no accident argue that Israel
wanted to stop the Liberty from snooping on its military during
the war.

Boston kept quiet too, until the 2002 publication of "The
Liberty Incident," by Judge Jay Cristol, provoked him.

Cristol's book, based on more than 10 years of research and
hundreds of interviews and the collection of thousands of
documents, argued that Israeli pilots, sailors and top military
officials, in the heat of combat and the fog of war, were
unaware the Liberty was a U.S. ship, mistaking it for an
Egyptian vessel.

The two men spoke twice during the 1990s while Cristol
researched his book, but Boston said recently that he only
discussed his career and did not reveal details of the inquiry.

"It is Cristol's insidious attempt to whitewash the facts that
has pushed me to speak out," Boston said in a Jan. 8 affidavit,
read by Bamford at the State Department conference last month.
Boston did not attend the conference.

Boston's affidavit was passed to Bamford by a friend who
believes that Israel is responsible for the attack on the
Liberty.

The judge, during a recent telephone interview, discounted
Boston's contention that Johnson and McNamara covered up Israel
complicity.

"I think those (accusations) are kind of nonsense," Cristol
said.

Cristol – also a former Navy pilot and JAG officer – said
Boston's comments show that he either lied in 1967 by knowingly
filing a false report or that his memory has changed with age.

Referring to Cristol, Boston said, "I'm not going to get into a
spitting contest with a skunk."

He also rejected suggestions that he is anti-Semitic, while
acknowledging some sympathy for the plight of Palestinian
refugees.

As he splits his day between local organizations and daily
visits to the gym to loosen up arthritic joints, Boston remains
largely oblivious to the electronic cacophony of e-mail and
Internet chat that makes him out to be either a patriot or a
patsy for anti-Israel factions.

That's because Boston doesn't have a computer. Friends print out
and pass along Internet postings mentioning him or his
statements.

"I'm a dinosaur," he said. "I use a pencil with an eraser and a
typewriter."

----------------------------------------------------------------

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__________________________________________________ _____________

o__ I'll tell you the truth about the USS LIBERTY, visit
_./)_
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_____________________(updated frequently)______________________

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/u...1e20lets1.html

Ward Boston is right about Liberty attack

Regarding "Ex-officer alleges cover-up in probe of spy ship attack,"
News, Feb. 17:

You can call it an "allegation" if you want, but it certainly happened exactly
as retired Navy Capt. Ward Boston said it did.I can assure you that Israel not
only attacked the U.S. Naval Security Group ship and killed American sailors,
but attacked again and again and again in a failed effort to sink the vessel,
which was clearly flying the American flag. Why? To cover up an ongoing
massacre of Egyptian soldiers upon which the ship was eavesdropping.It was a
futile effort and useless slaughter of American lives on the Israelis' part
because everything was also being recorded by a U.S. Air Force spy plane flying
above. Commander William L. McGonagle, the ship's captain, was later awarded
the Medal of Honor, the only recipient in history to receive it in a private,
secret ceremony.To play the apologist and claim that it was a "mistake," as
Judge Jay Cristol does in "The Liberty Incident," is a disgrace to the memory
of the many American sailors who died that day. As usual, given enough time,
the truth will normally out.

HAROLD TRUMAN
Pacific Beach

For the truth, access www.ussliberty.org

Subject: The USS Liberty update
From: (MORRIS434)
Date: 2/17/04 4:45 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

From the web site at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...17liberty.html
-------------------------------------------------------

EX-OFFICER ALLEGES COVER-UP IN PROBE OF SPY SHIP ATTACK
By James W. Crawley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 17, 2004

Ward Boston is an unassuming octogenarian who resides in a gated
community on Coronado's Silver Strand.

A retired Navy captain, he hardly attracts attention in a town
full of active-duty and retired sailors.

Yet Boston is in the maelstrom of a nearly 37-year-old
controversy surrounding Israel's deadly attack on the Navy's spy
ship Liberty during the Six-Day War with Egypt, Syria and
Jordan. The June 1967 attack killed 34 Americans and wounded
171.

Last October, Boston broke decades of silence and declared that
the Navy admiral who investigated the incident had been ordered
by President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara to conclude it was a case of mistaken identity, despite
evidence to the contrary.

As the chief counsel for the Navy's court of inquiry, Boston had
an insider's view.

"I didn't speak up earlier because I was told not to," Boston
said in an interview.

His revelation, repeated last month before a State Department
conference about the Six-Day War, has rekindled a smoldering
debate over how it happened and whether the United States and
Israel covered up the truth.

Anti-Israel factions portray Boston's words – true to his legal
background, memorialized in two affidavits but rarely spoken to
an audience larger than one person – as proof of Israel's guilt.

Israel's supporters, including a federal bankruptcy judge who
researched the attack and wrote a book on it, say Boston is
lying. Some pin an anti-Semitic badge on his lapel.

On Web pages and through e-mail, an electronic brawl is raging
over Boston's disclosures among his admirers and detractors.

But, for the men who survived the attack, Boston's comments
endorse views smelted in cordite, blood and smoke.

"We feel we've been vindicated," said James Ennes, the Liberty's
officer of the deck the day of the attack, which left him
severely wounded.

"We've been saying for 37 years that the court of inquiry was a
fraud, that it was corrupted, that it ignored evidence and made
findings not supported by the evidence," said Ennes, whose book
about the incident claims it was a deliberate Israeli attack.

Boston's cover-up allegation is "enormously significant," said
author James Bamford, who has written several books about the
super-secret National Security Agency, which analyzed radio
intercepts from Liberty and other U.S. surveillance ships.

"It's equivalent to former Supreme Court (Chief) Justice Earl
Warren coming out and saying 'the Warren Commission report on
(the) Kennedy (assassination) – everything we said was not what
we believed, but we were pressured to say it,' " Bamford said.

"It puts an enormous shadow over everything that was in the
(Navy) report," he said.

Even with Boston's affidavits and some newly released documents
presented at the State Department conference, no consensus was
reached on whether the attack was deliberate, accidental or the
result of negligence.

---

The Liberty was a Navy spy ship, plain and simple.

Like its ill-fated sister vessel Pueblo, which was captured by
North Korea six months later, the Liberty was festooned with
antennas and its cargo holds were converted into top-secret
locked compartments lined with receivers where petty officers
eavesdropped on other nations' militaries.

During the Six-Day War, the Liberty loitered off the Sinai
Peninsula, listening to Israel's lightning victory over Egypt.

On the afternoon of June 8, 1967, Israeli jets strafed the ship.
Hours later, Israeli torpedo boats attacked. By the evening, 34
U.S. sailors were dead and 171 injured.

Israel said the attack was a terrible mistake caused by the
misidentification of the Liberty as an Egyptian vessel.
Investigations followed, including the Navy's court of inquiry.

That's when Ward Boston's involvement began.

---

If Hollywood had discovered Boston, he could have been the
real-life prototype for Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, one of the leads on
the television show "JAG."

In the Pacific during World War II, Boston flew harrowing
photo-reconnaissance missions over Tokyo and Iwo Jima in Navy
Hellcat fighters, sometimes making three passes over a single
target – once to take pre-bombing pictures, then joining other
planes in attacking the target and, finally, a post-attack pass
to photograph the damage.

After the war, Boston went to law school, passed the bar and
entered private practice. Meanwhile, he continued to fly Navy
fighters as a reservist, including its first jet, the FH-1
Phantom.

In the late 1940s, he joined the FBI and was assigned to field
offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. During the Korean War,
he rejoined the Navy, this time as a JAG officer.

By June 1967, Boston was legal officer for then-Rear Adm. Isaac
Kidd Jr. when the flag officer was assigned to head the hastily
convened inquiry into the Liberty attack.

Unable to interview hospitalized sailors and Israeli military
and civilian officials, the investigative panel was given just a
week to examine the battered ship, interview survivors and
collect radio intercepts and other information.

Boston said it was obvious then who was responsible.

"There's no way in the world that it was an accident," Boston
said.

In his affidavits and a recent interview, Boston recounted how
he and Kidd discussed their conclusions about the survivors'
testimony.

"(Kidd) referred to the Israelis as 'murderous *******s,' "
Boston said.

After Kidd delivered the panel's report to Washington officials,
Boston said the admiral told him, "they aren't interested in the
facts or what happened. It's a political issue. They want to
cover it up." Then Kidd admonished Boston to keep silent.

Boston said Kidd told him privately that orders came from
Johnson and McNamara to find the incident was a mistake and not
a deliberate act.

There is no documentation to support Boston's account.

Kidd died in 1999 at 79 after a career topped by command of the
Atlantic Fleet. He never spoke of a cover-up.

The late '60s was the height of the Cold War between the United
States and the Soviet Union. The Soviets were backing the Arab
nations; the United States was allied with Israel. U.S. troops
were fully engaged in Vietnam and the United States was fearful
of growing Soviet influence, especially in the oil-rich Mideast.

Those who claim the attack was no accident argue that Israel
wanted to stop the Liberty from snooping on its military during
the war.

Boston kept quiet too, until the 2002 publication of "The
Liberty Incident," by Judge Jay Cristol, provoked him.

Cristol's book, based on more than 10 years of research and
hundreds of interviews and the collection of thousands of
documents, argued that Israeli pilots, sailors and top military
officials, in the heat of combat and the fog of war, were
unaware the Liberty was a U.S. ship, mistaking it for an
Egyptian vessel.

The two men spoke twice during the 1990s while Cristol
researched his book, but Boston said recently that he only
discussed his career and did not reveal details of the inquiry.

"It is Cristol's insidious attempt to whitewash the facts that
has pushed me to speak out," Boston said in a Jan. 8 affidavit,
read by Bamford at the State Department conference last month.
Boston did not attend the conference.

Boston's affidavit was passed to Bamford by a friend who
believes that Israel is responsible for the attack on the
Liberty.

The judge, during a recent telephone interview, discounted
Boston's contention that Johnson and McNamara covered up Israel
complicity.

"I think those (accusations) are kind of nonsense," Cristol
said.

Cristol – also a former Navy pilot and JAG officer – said
Boston's comments show that he either lied in 1967 by knowingly
filing a false report or that his memory has changed with age.

Referring to Cristol, Boston said, "I'm not going to get into a
spitting contest with a skunk."

He also rejected suggestions that he is anti-Semitic, while
acknowledging some sympathy for the plight of Palestinian
refugees.

As he splits his day between local organizations and daily
visits to the gym to loosen up arthritic joints, Boston remains
largely oblivious to the electronic cacophony of e-mail and
Internet chat that makes him out to be either a patriot or a
patsy for anti-Israel factions.

That's because Boston doesn't have a computer. Friends print out
and pass along Internet postings mentioning him or his
statements.

"I'm a dinosaur," he said. "I use a pencil with an eraser and a
typewriter."

----------------------------------------------------------------

James W. Crawley: (619) 542-4559;

_________________________________________________ ______________

o__ I'll tell you the truth about the USS LIBERTY, visit
_./)_
(_) \(_) http://home.cfl.rr.com/gidusko/liberty/

_____________________(updated frequently)______________________

In article 43kTb.159694$5V2.830786@attbi_s53, says...
Capt. Ward Boston, in a sworn affidavit, recently revealed that the court
was ordered by the White House to cover up the incident and find that
Israel's attack was "a case of mistaken identity."


I think you better read this affidavit

http://www.thelibertyincident.com/do...n-comments.pdf



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