Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas
Language: English
Published by Trine Day, 2017
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Uncover the shocking truth behind the USS Liberty attack and the subsequent cover-up.Remember the Liberty explores how President Lyndon Johnson collaborated with Israeli leaders to foment war and ensure victory, including the acquisition of additional land. This explosive account identifies the real cause of the attack and the severe threats to the crewmembers to keep their lips sealed. Written largely by the survivors themselves, this book reveals: The deliberate nature of the attack The political machinations behind the cover-up The long-term impact on US-Israeli relations For readers of US history, political science, and military affairs, this book exposes a hidden chapter of American history and seeks justice for the victims of a brutal betrayal.
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- Title
- Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas
- Author
- Ernest A Gallo
- Publisher
- Trine Day
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1634241088
- ISBN 13
- 9781634241083
The USS Liberty was a 455-foot, 10,150-ton electronic intercept spy ship, originally a standard-design Victory Ship--a more evolved version of the World War II Liberty Ships--which were built as supply ships, not intended for direct fighting. The Liberty had been converted to an Auxiliary Technical Research Ship (AGTR), known colloquially as a "spy ship," first deployed in 1965; its top speed was only 18 knots.
Yet the Liberty's fate, one of the most enigmatic, unresolved military mysteries of all time, is, paradoxically at its core, quite clear-cut and undisputed. The basic facts generally accepted by all are that, on the fourth day of the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors (Egypt, Syria and Jordan), the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) savagely attacked the U.S. spy ship, the USS Liberty.
On the warm, sunny-bright day of June 8, 1967, starting at about 6:00 a.m., at least twelve, possibly thirteen Israeli aircraft of different types began surveilling the Liberty, some of which were only 1,000 feet or less in altitude, apparently to photograph and "map" her for later targeting purposes. The precision of the later attack could only have been accomplished through such pre-planning, specifically identifying the priority targets, starting with the gun mounts to render the ship defenseless, followed by all of the forty-five different radio antennae and related transmitting equipment. . Beginning just before 2:00 p.m., three unmarked French-built Mirage III-C swept-wing fighter jets, without warning, settled into a triangular formation, aimed straight at the Liberty and proceeded to bore down on the ship in a fast low-level attack that began with rockets targeted at the four gun mounts and heat-seeking missiles aimed at the communications gear, with their warmed transmitters. . When the attack was over, thirty-four men were dead and one hundred seventy-four were injured to varying degrees, some near death.
Unlike all other books ever written about the tragic attack - none of which provide a satisfactory explanation of what really caused it - Remember the Liberty! examines it in complete context of how it was positioned there by Johnson himself, for the very purpose of being attacked, and sunk, with every one of the 294 men on board going to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. His purpose was to use that event - while blaming Egyptian President Gamal Nasser for the attack - as a pretext for joining Israel in the war, even at the risk of igniting World War III with the Soviet Union. This book provides the only realistic explanation for why Lyndon Johnson did what he did, and why, in the heat of battle, he intervened with his Navy officers who were determined to rescue the Liberty and ordered them to recall the squadrons of fighter jets they had already dispatched - twice, 90 minutes apart - for that purpose.
When the heroic crew saved the ship from sinking, it stopped Johnson's plan to join Israel in the war and thereby saved the world from certain nuclear conflagration. It also prevented his strategy of entering what he felt would be a "popular war" (unlike his other one in Vietnam) in order to give him a better chance to be reelected president the following year. When that failed to materialize, so did his reelection campaign; ten months later he was forced to announce his decision to not re-run for the office that he had always considered his destiny.
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About the Author
The Foreword was written by Ray McGovern, an ex-CIA analyst with extensive experience in many aspects of U.S. foreign policy, including the unresolved matter of the attack on the USS Liberty and its impact on U.S / Israeli relations. McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publication arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington, DC. He served at the CIA from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H.W. Bush, and was one of five CIA "alumni" who created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity in January 2003.
Co-Authors (All were survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty):
Ernest Gallo, author of Liberty Injustices, served on the Liberty as a Second Class Communications Technician, was responsible for maintaining cryptographic hardware associated with the mission.
Phillip Tourney, author of What I Saw That Day and Erasing The Liberty and the host of the radio show "Your Voice Counts" was on duty as a fireman and damage control specialist;
Ronald Kukal, the senior enlisted man on the crew, was the Petty Officer in charge of the body recovery, and identification.
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