The USS Liberty Incident: Separating Fact from Conspiracy

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Primary Sources

“Naval Message: Secret”, (June 8, 1967)

“Report of the JCS Fact Finding Team: USS Liberty Incident 8 June 1967”

“Annex Delta to CINCUSNAVEUR OPORD” (June 1967) (Declassified March 3, 2007)

“AP News Copied”, (June 11, 1967)

CIA, “Intelligence Memorandum: The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty,” (June 13, 1967)

“Telegram from the Defense Attache Office in Israel to the White House,” Office of the Historian, Department of State, (June 18, 1967)

“Aftermath of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty,” (June 22, 1967)

Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963-1969, (1971)

Dean Rusk, As I Saw It, (1990)

Clark Clifford, Richard Holbrooke, Counsel to the President: A Memoir, (1991)

“Public Affairs in the USS LIBERTY Incident,” Historical Division Joint Secretariat Joint Chiefs of Staff, (March 7, 1975) (Declassified September 15, 1992)

Secondary Sources

Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, (2002)

Martin Gilbert, Israel: A History, (2008)

A Jay Cristol, The Liberty Incident Revealed: The Definitive Account of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship, (2013)

Footnotes

[1] Cristol, p. 2

[2] Ibid, p. 3-5

[3] Ibid, p. 29-30, 67, 70 Rusk, p. 387

[4] Oren, p. 262-3

[5] Cristol, p. 6-8

[6] Ibid, p. 24-5

[7] Ibid, p. 27-9

[8] Report of, p. 5-11, Cristol, p. 212

[9] Report of, p. 5-13

[10] Ibid, p. 13-4

[11] Ibid, p. 15-7, Cristol, p. 16-7

[12] Report of, p. 11-12, 27, Cristol, p. 33, CIA, p. 6-7

[13] Oren, p. 263-4

[14] Cristol, p. 21-2

[15] Ibid, p. 20-1

[16] CIA, p. i-iii, 1-2, Cristol, p. 21-2, 33-6, Report of, p. 28-9, Oren, p. 263-4

[17] Oren, p. 263-5

[18] Cristol, p. 21-2, 40, Oren, p. 264-5, CIA, p. i-iii

[19] Telegram, Oren, p. 264-5. Cristol, p. 33-6

[20] Oren, p. 264-5, Cristol, p. 33-6, Telegram, Cristol, p. 39

[21] Oren, p. 265, Telegram

[22] Oren, p. 265-6

[23] Cristol, p. 46-8, 51, CIA, p. 1-2

[24] Oren, p. 265-6

[25] Cristol, p. 46-8, 51, Oren, p. 265-6

[26] Oren, p. 267

[27] Cristol, p. 33-6, 51-6, Report of, p. 28-9, Oren, p. 267

[28] Cristol, p. 51-6

[29] Telegram

[30] Cristol, p. 56-9, CIA, p. 2-3

[31] Aftermath, p. 1, CIA, p. 3-4

[32] Oren, p. 267-8, CIA, p. 4-5, Aftermath, p. 1

[33] CIA, p. I-iii, 1-2, Cristol, p. 65-5

[34] Cristol, p. 63-5, Johnson, p. 300-1, Clifford, Holbrooke, p. 445

[35] Cristol, p. 60-2, 66

[36] Public Affairs

[37] Cristol, p. 60-2

[39] Cristol, p. 70-1, Annex Delta, p. 2-6

[40] Oren, p. 268-9

[41] Cristol, p. 29-30, 72-3, Public Affairs

[42] Cristol, p. 30-2

[43] Ibid, p. 89-91, 156-8

[44] Ibid, p. 173-5

[45] Telegram, Cristol, p. 175-7

[46] Public Affairs

[47] Cristol, p. 69

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