Survivors of USS Liberty attack want questions answered
Navy Times: Telegrams Cast Doubt on USS Liberty Report
By Bryant Jordan
Forty years ago this month Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats strafed the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Liberty with machine gun fire, hit it with torpedoes and blasted it with napalm, killing 34 U.S. sailors and wounding 174 more.
But the Liberty did not go down after the June 8, 1967, attack. And though sold for scrap more than three decades ago, it still refuses to sink into history, as surviving crew members long critics of the Navy board of inquiry’s conclusion that the incident was an error continue to push for a complete investigation.
Alternative theories have persisted about the incident, ranging from allegations that the Israelis deliberately struck the Liberty to a belief that Israeli and American leaders colluded on the attack, initially hoping to pin it on Egypt.
Now attack survivors, who will meet this month in Washington for a reunion, may have something new with which to poke holes in the Navy board’s finding: copies of the first Western Union telegrams notifying next of kin of a family member’s death.
Premature conclusion?
In each of 25 telegrams seen by Navy Times, the Navy was calling the attack an accident well before its court of inquiry ever convened. The telegrams are dated as early as June 9 some four days before the official board heard from a single Liberty witness and June 13, two days before the board finished its report.



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