Guest post by Alan Fisher
Thirty-four died and over 170 were injured in Israeli attack on US warship during 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War.
Richard Brooks still remembers when the alert came.
With klaxons sounding and people yelling, the tannoy system warned everyone “Standby to receive torpedo hit”.
“I thought I’ll never get out of this mess alive. Weird things were running through your minds, because I’d chalked myself off.”
He felt the torpedoes hit and the ship pitch to one side but realised he was still alive.
And then the priority became survival. As chief engineer, he could tell the engines were still working. “My machinery was still intact and I was still making headway. I yelled through the voice tube ‘Give me all the steam pressure you’ve got, let’s get the hell out of this area’”.
Eventually his ship, The USS Liberty made its way to safer waters and managed to take stock of the sustained attack. Thirty-four were lying dead, more than 171 were injured.
The victims of the day Israel attacked America.
The Liberty had been sitting in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. A spy ship, it had been gathering information as the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War raged on land.
‘Mistaken identity’
During the course of the day, the ship had been buzzed by Israeli aircraft. But flying the American flag, there was no cause for panic, no need for alarm.
“People were sunbathing, enjoying the June sunshine,” said Brooks, who was more concerned with keeping the engines running. The demands of the job perhaps saved his life.
Israel insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. It alleged that pilots were exhausted having fought so hard over the previous days. The US naval vessel was thought to be an Egyptian warship.
And that’s why it was attacked with rockets and cannons and missiles and torpedoes.
But Brooks doesn’t buy the Israeli apology. Standing next to the graves of his shipmates in Arlington National Cemetery he tells me “It wasn’t a tragic accident, It was a deliberate attack. They knew who we were. They tried to sink us. They wanted us out to either bring the Americans into the war by blaming the Arabs or we picked up some information about their war plans”.
Websites set up to discuss the Liberty back Brooks’ suggestion. Some claim the Israeli planes which attacked were unmarked, hoping they’d be mistaken for Arab fighter jets. Others speculate that it was known the radio signals from the Liberty could be hacked by the Russians. And worried the US had picked up sensitive information about plans for the Golan Heights, which the Russians would pass to their allies, the Egyptians, the Israelis tried to sink the spy ship.
Every year on June 8, the survivors gather to mark the attack – to read the names of the dead and to share stories and memories.
The numbers are less every year. This year there were just seven survivors in attendance. But the passion to find out exactly what happened remains undiminished. As they stand between the white grave stones, a light summer breeze taking the edge off the afternoon heat, the memorial service also includes a call for justice and for truth.
‘We had a ship to sail’
Ernie Gallo is the president of the USS Liberty Survivors Group.
He remembers the attack and how everything seemed surprisingly calm. “We had to do what we could for our dead and wounded. We had a ship to sail. We had to get to safety”
He’s read the reports, the official inquiries and read the books about the incident. He’s even written his own.
I ask if he accepts the Israeli apology, and the explanation it was all a mistake created in the fog of war: “When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology. Not as far as I’m concerned and our government is just as bad off for going along with it,” he answered.
To get a job on the Liberty, sailors were to have an outstanding service record and were chosen for their honesty and moral character. “Someone is lying here,” says Gallo, “and it isn’t us”.
Even now he hopes there will be a full official inquiry into the events of June 8, 1967.
Robert Brooks and Ernie Gallo know it’s unlikely, but they still hope it might happen. They both say the families of the dead and the survivors deserve the truth, before they mark another anniversary.
It’s very good to bring this up every year. An excellent example of a NWO Bankster False Flag. Where the President and the DOD leadership were directly involved.
Israel Attacks USS Liberty in Joint False Flag Operation in 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQN8rvdOTk
Cannot believe anything from any country
This was a orchestrated team effort between the US and Israeli military , a deliberate false flag led by Admiral George S. Morrison (Father of rock star Jim Morrison) who was in charge of two criminal false flags against our country. Nothing has changed, they are still murdering our servicemen.
Political systems are the Big Con.
Who is conned most, we who they tax to pay for it all (and stuff their pockets in the process) or those they con into joining the military to “defend the nation?”
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars
The official Liberty survivors website: http://www.gtr5.com
Don’t believe it.
Israel is America’s greatest freind and ally and always has been.
Many Israeli citizens, who want to steer America on the right course for the future, are also American citizens in powerful positions in the American government.
People who question Egypt’s attack on the USS Liberty, by blaming the event on Israel, are like Holocaust deniers. They shoud be silenced, jailed, and prosecuted.
Seriously disappointed James!
This CRAP is 100% BULL SH*T!
What a surprise that “All JIZZ” is cited as the “source” for regurgitating the a**-saving ‘official’ whitewash of the blatant dereliction of those upper echelon muckey mucks who were truly responsible for that Clusterf*ck which transpired on that day!
Wake the hell up America, and get a Clue!
Cheers,
S. Rex
partacus Rex says:
Seriously disappointed James!
This CRAP is 100% BULL SH*T!
What a surprise that “All JIZZ” is cited as the “source” for regurgitating the a**-saving ‘official’ whitewash of the blatant dereliction of those upper echelon muckey mucks who were truly responsible for that Clusterf*ck which transpired on that day!
Wake the hell up America, and get a Clue!
Cheers,
S. Rex
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What an idiot you are. Having said that I agree “Wake the hell up America, and get a Clue!” Israel is not our ally or our friend. America will never be a free country again until that ethnic cleansing, apartheid parasite is wiped off the face of the earth.
Then by all means, Get a Clue “Z”
“Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance”
The FACTS which lead to that Clusterf*ck has been in the Public Domain for DECADES and the Parties responsible for same are NOT who the article alleges to be, in spite of your predetermined bigotry.
Cheers,
S. Rex
LBJ Ordered the Death of US Servicemen
By Roger Stone
June 10, 2015
The USS Liberty murders are arguably Lyndon Johnson’s greatest crime if one does not include deceiving and dragging America into the horrors of the Vietnam War where millions perished.
The USS Liberty event is one of the most important and also one of the highly suppressed events in modern American history.
William F. Buckley, the publisher of the National Review smelled a dead rat: “Is the Liberty episode being erased from history. So it would seem…What has happened to our prying journalistic corps and our editors, normally so indignant of attempted suppression of the news?…We believe that a joint select committee of Congress should investigate the strange case of the USS Liberty…” (Buckley on June 27, 1967).
Why the cover-up? That is because the horrible and grisly truth about the USS Liberty reflects very poorly on Lyndon Johnson, the United States and Israel. Starting at 2PM Mediterranean time on June 8, 1967 Israel bombed, torpedoed, napalmed and even machine gunned the life boats of the USS Liberty.
As I detailed in the second edition (paperback) of my NY Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, Lyndon Johnson was the one who ordered Israel’s IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) to not just sink the USS Liberty, but also to murder every person on board and eliminate any survivors.
The same man who murdered the president John Kennedy in 1963 is the same man who was hell bent on murdering all 294 Americans on board the USS Liberty in June of 1967: Lyndon Johnson.
But why? The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty occurred on the 4th day of the Six Day War, which was a war between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan and Syria. The Six Day War was a spectacular success for Israel because it succeeded in taking the Golan Heights from Syria, the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt.
Israel began the Six Day War on June 5th with a surprise attack on Egypt and by the end of that day Israel had utterly destroyed the Egyptian air force as it lay sitting on it airfields. Israel within a one day had claimed air superiority over both Egypt (planes destroyed on tarmac) and Syria (2/3 of air force in ruins by end of June 5th).
Even though Israel crushed the Arabs during the Six Day War, that outcome was not known nor foreordained before the war. Perhaps 900 Israelis were killed while its Arab neighbors lost 20,000 people. Israel lost 46 aircraft while the Arabs lost a whopping 452 aircraft, mostly planes.
Israel was secretly coordinating the Six Day War with LBJ and the United States — we were sharing intelligence with the Israelis. One can read Peter Hounam’s fabulous book Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War Three (2003) for greater detail.
The reason LBJ ordered the USS Liberty destroyed and all 294 crew members murdered was because he and Israel were going to blame the massacre of the USS Liberty on Egypt so that the United States would have a pretext to attack, bomb and take out Nasser of Egypt who, as author Barry Chamish points out, had drifted into the Soviet camp over the previous ten years.
Author Peter Hounam discovered the smoking gun on LBJ’s participation in the USS Liberty murders when he interviewed former SAC (Strategic Air Command, i.e. nuclear) B-52 pilot Jim Nanjo who told him his nuclear SAC unit in San Diego went on high alert 1-2 hours before the Liberty was attacked on June 8, 1967. Only President Johnson could have given the grave order to go on nuclear high alert, which implies LBJ knew about Israeli attack on the Liberty in advance.
If LBJ knew about attack on the Liberty in advance then it means he orchestrated the whole plot with the Israeli Defense Forces acting on his orders through IDF head Moshe Dayan.
The other smoking gun that indicts LBJ in the USS Liberty murders is what we learned from what Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis told Lt. Commander David Lewis, who was the head of the Liberty’s NSA group. LBJ told Admiral Geiss that he did not give a damn if the ship sank that he would not embarrass an ally (Israel).
Which begs the question, how did Lyndon Johnson know before anyone else that Israel was attacking the USS Liberty?
The emergency SOS flash bulletin that was sent out by the Liberty within 10-15 minutes of it being attacked (assault began 6:58AM Wash DC time) only said: “Liberty is under attack by unknown enemy air and surface units. Request Assistance.” The SOS emergency bulletin said nothing about Israel attacking the ship, although Israel had made numerous overflights of the Liberty earlier in the day.
Johnny Carson used to have a character called Carnac the Magnificent and the Carson schtick was that Carnac could answer a question before it was even asked.
So what was Lyndon Johnson: “Carnac the Magnificent?” Giving the answer that it was Israel attacking the USS Liberty before any other person on the planet knew this? How did that happen? What did Lyndon Johnson “know” before anyone else?
Lyndon Johnson had another “Carnac” moment four years before at 1:20 PM on 12-22-63 in Dallas, TX at Parkland Hospital at the very moment he found out that John Kennedy was dead. LBJ immediately told assistant press secretary Mac Kilduff, who was about to hold a press conference, “Well now Mac before you make that announcement we don’t know what kind of a communist conspiracy this might be.” LBJ said this 30 minutes before the arrest of “communist” Lee Harvey Oswald (the CIA’s pre-selected patsy for the JFK assassination). Lyndon “Carnac the Magnificent” Johnson was immediately saying that a red killed JFK while the rest of the world was just sure that the notorious andvociferous Dallas 1963 was behind the JFK assassination.
In 2002 author Peter Hounam interviewed Liberty survivor Moe Schafer who told him what Sixth Fleet Commander William I. Martin told him:
Not only did Admiral Martin tell me that four jets were on their way to the Liberty with conventional weapons [and were recalled]; he stated that four were on their way to Cairo loaded with nuclear weapons.He stated they were three minutes from bombing them [the Egyptians].He also said that the jets could not land back on the carrier with nuclear arms and they had had to land in Athens.He stated this from my bedside while on the Little Rock [the codename of the flagship] after the attack.” Lyndon Johnson had sent planes with nuclear payloads to bomb Cairo and they were turned around 3 minutes before World War III was going to begin. JFK assassination expert Robert Morrow has cogently described Lyndon Johnson as a “functional lunatic” just as some people are “functional alcoholics.
McGeorge Bundy, the former National Security Advisor for both John Kennedy and LBJ was called in from retirement by LBJ to help manage the U.S. response to the Six Day War. Three and one-half years after theUSS Liberty crisis, Bundy was having dinner with Arthur Schlesinger and Schlesinger remarked that he had read Nikita Khruschev’s account of what it was like to work with Joseph Stalin and Schlesinger remarked that it reminded him of Adolph Hitler.
Bundy’s reply was, “When I read Khrushchev, I was reminded of something else in addition – my last days in the White House with LBJ.” Bundy’s last time in the White House was during the USS Liberty crisis.
The reality is that Lyndon Johnson was a one-man crime wave running through the elite levels of American politics for thirty-five years. His own top Aide Cliff Carter bragged that LBJ had ordered the murder of at least 17 men and as well as his own indiscreet sister.
LBJ murdered JFK and LBJ orchestrated the 34 USS Liberty murders, 171 casualties and LBJ was the singular lunatic who brought the world to the precipice of World War III during the Six Day War.
For anyone who thinks that Israel would have intentionally attacked an American ship and attempt to exterminate all survivors (including machine gunning the Liberty life rafts, a war crime) without the express orders of the head of the American state, please remember that Israel in 1967 was utterly aware that the tall Texan in the White House was their best friend ever. The Jewish Times has gone so far as to say Lyndon Johnson was the USA’s first Jewish president. Lyndon Johnson had been an advocate of Jewish causes from his first moment as a congressman in 1937 and it is just nuts to think Israel would have savagely attacked an American ship unless ordered to do so by Lyndon Johnson personally.
Because Lyndon Johnson had brought the world on the edge of nuclear war in a situation every bit as dangerous as the Cuban Missile Crisis, cooler heads in the USA and USSR decided that relations must be immediately improved between the two nuclear superpowers. That is why the Glassboro Summit Conference was convened June 23-25 in the immediate wake of the Six Day War.
Final note: Admiral John S. McCain, the father of his namesake U.S. Senator John McCain was the person who LBJ assigned to issue a whitewash on the USS Liberty within 10 days.
The report concluded that Israel had accidentally attacked (“a case of mistaken identity”) the USS Liberty despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Admiral McCain’s whitewash report was the precise equivalent of the discredited Warren Commission report on the JFK assassination.
That comment above mine sounds like conspiracy historical revisionism from a known LBJ hater (I don’t like him, myself). Stone is not exactly an objective researcher.
None of it adds up unless you wait several decades for the original source material to age and be forgotten, for the eyewitnesses to substantially die off, and for the ignorant asshat public to blithely forget it ever happened.
Why would LBJ nuke Egypt?! That’s laughably insane. He certainly didn’t nuke Vietnam and I used to know a DIA analyst who was fired expressly for pushing that point too hard. 30 years later, when I met him, he was still fuming about it. “If we had nuked the Red River dams like I told them to, the war would have been over in a month…”
Without a lot more info, the scramble mentioned in the comment sounds like a coincidence. Considering the sheer number of false alarms during the Cold War, I wouldn’t use that as my smoking gun.
There is a much older book about the incident, one of Bantam’s war line, “Assault on the USS Liberty,” by LT James Ennes, who was OOD on the Liberty during the attack. He stated the sailors had no illusions about who was attacking them. The ship was flying a massive US flag on the stern and the Israelis flew over several times-there was no way they didn’t know who she was. LT Ennes stated LBJ and the US Govt didn’t want to alienate Jewish voters and Jewish money.
Ennis explained they knew the Israelis knew who they were because of all their close overflights. The planes that attacked were unmarked, but no one had any illusions whose planes they were. Later, the 2nd wave of the attack was torpedo boats. After the torpedo boat attack, Israeli-flagged choppers full of troops came and observed as unmarked Israeli jets came back, but the final attack was called off due to the approaching threat of 8 US carrier-based aircraft. The attack might have been stopped early on, since the Liberty did get off a Mayday, but LBJ called off the first planes to prevent an international incident. He was read to write off the Liberty, but was pushed to act by the senior military advisers.
This is a VT report on the incident. It’s late and I don’t have time to do more, but read the book by LT Ennis, since he was there and it is an older, more original source. VT is a shitty site, but the recitation of the facts of the attack is in line with the story told in Assault on the Liberty.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/06/07/alan-hart-israels-attack-on-the-uss-liberty-the-full-story/
When I learned about this, I began to realize what monsters control our government(s). I can only hope that our current military organizations have some Bill McGonagles at the helm or at the controls, willing to do whatever necessary to save their crew’s lives and fight back even when told to stand down.
But, hope is all I can do. I see very little evidence of anyone willing to tell the PC army generals that social experiments belong in the psych lab, not the military.
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Hands and botz down. That Maggie was right about fishing around in your old underwear drawer here on this platform. There’s all kinds of good ter go gossip in here in many ways.
As well as some real treasures in contributions from readers who get what The Burning Platform really is.
This article and the comment stream is a real treasure trove for those who are unaware of this event in our proud history.