Atak na amerykański okręt wojenny USS Liberty - dokonany przez siły zbrojne Izraela w czerwcu 1967 r. - był już poruszony na forum Racjonalisty w wątku: "Bękarty Wojny. O tym jak Izrael zaatakował "USS Liberty".(www.racjonalista.pl/forum.php/s,707718). Dzisiaj raz jeszcze warto wrócić do tematu - który nadal wzbudza kontrowersje i emocje w amerykańskim środowisku wojskowych i byłych wojskowych, gdyż wkrótce ukaże się kolejna książka na temat, tym razem autorstwa Joana Millena pt. “Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty” - w której autor stawia tezę, iż atak na amerykański okręt wojenny był utajnioną operacją, przedsięwziętą przez siły zbrojne Izraela - ZA ZGODĄ JEGO AMERYKAŃSKIEGO SOJUSZNIKA - której celem było wykreowanie sytuacji dającej podstawę do oskarżenia Egiptu o dokonanie ataku jak wyżej - w celu zainicjowania działań zmierzającej do usunięcia prezydenta Nasera.
Zainteresowanych problemem odsyłam do podlinkowanego materiału - a tymczasem zasygnalizuję tylko, iż koncepcja jak wyżej żywcem przypomina przypadek krążownika "Maine" - którego zatonięcie na redzie portu w Hawanie posłużyło za sui generis pretekst do ataku na Hiszpanię w 1898 r.


"COLEBROOK — With a North Country native at its core, a book to be released this fall will argue that then-President Lyndon Johnson ordered the Israeli Defense Forces to attack and sink, with no survivors, the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967 in an effort to promote regime change in Egypt.
“Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty” by Joan Mellen, a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, explores this tragic episode of an attack by one of America’s allies that resulted in dozen of American deaths and nearly 200 injuries.
Deep in the midst of the Cold War, the NSA wanted to hear everything that the then-Soviet Union and its allies or proxies were saying anywhere in the world. The 456-foot Liberty — whose specialty was gathering electronic communications — was accordingly sent around the world. On June 5, 1967, when Israel launched a strike against Egypt, Jordan and Syria — the so-called Six-Day War — she was ordered to proceed “at best speed” to the eastern Mediterranean Sea.While Cmdr. William McGonagle, the ship’s captain, and his crew of 99 sailors directed the Liberty toward the Sinai Peninsula, inside the vessel, then-Lt. Cmdr. David Edwin Lewis, the Liberty’s chief intelligence officer and a 1949 graduate of Colebrook Academy, received a terse order for himself and the 194 other communications gatherers under his command: “Find out who’s doing what to whom.”

"While recovering aboard the carrier USS America, Lewis said he had a conversation with Adm. Lawrence R. Geis, the Sixth Fleet’s carrier division commander, who “swore me to secrecy for his lifetime” and then shared that the Fleet had twice launched relief aircraft to the Liberty and that each time they had been recalled by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. When Geis challenged the second recall, Johnson came on the phone himself, the admiral told Lewis, who remembered Geis quoting the President saying that “I don’t give a damn if the ship sinks and all the Americans are killed. I will not embarrass my ally".
Now 87 and the oldest survivor of the Liberty, Lewis keeps trying to understand why Israel did what it did 51 years ago Friday and he comes to some of the same conclusions that others, including Mellen, have reached: that the U.S. and Johnson had decided to destabilize Egyptian President Gamal Abel Nasser by blaming his country for the attack."


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