FC: NSA "Secret Savin" documents shed light on USS Liberty attack

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

In 1967, Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats engaged in a sudden and 
unprovoked attack on a U.S. government surveillance ship, the U.S.S. 
Liberty, that was on a peaceful mission in international waters. The attack 
killed 34 American sailors. The question remaining today is why the attack 
happened. Was it an accident, or an attempt by the Israelis to limit U.S. 
surveillance of their military actions against Egypt? See: 
http://www.nsa.gov/museum/liberty.html

Author James Bamford wrote an excellent book called Body of Secrets that 
establishes (in my opinion) that the attack was intentional, noting that 
the Israeli pilots mentioned the ship was flying an American flag:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/23/liberty.attack/

Now the National Security Agency, to its credit, has released surveillance 
tapes (recorded on a U.S. Navy EC-121 plane) and documents in response to a 
FOIA request. The documents are dubbed "Secret Savin":
http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/liberty.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/09/uss.liberty.tapes/

Another copy of the audio and PDF files is at the link below.

-Declan

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:12:33 +0200
From: "BoazGuttmanAdv." <bg10 () bezeqint net>
Subject: Tapping The Israeli Air Force by The NSA

http://www.fresh.co.il/dcforum/Scoops/68828.html
Hebrew and English inside.The docs are in the Cyber Crimes Page - NSA
Section
Here: http://www.4law.co.il/6.html 




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