Blood within the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty

Presents proof suggesting collusion between US and Israeli intelligence within the assault on a US naval surveillance vessel throughout the Six-Day Warfare and the greater than fifty-year lengthy cover-up.On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an unarmed intelligence ship reporting to the Joint Chiefs of Employees below the auspices of the Nationwide Safety Company, was positioned in worldwide waters off the coast of Egypt when it was attacked with lethal violence by unmarked jet planes firing rockets and machine weapons and throwing napalm onto its deck. This ambush was adopted by a torpedo strike that blew a forty-foot gap within the starboard facet of the ship. Missing the capability to defend themselves, thirty-four sailors had been killed and 174 wounded, many for all times. By the top of the day, Israel had confessed to having been the aggressor, concurrently arguing that the assault had been an “accident” and a “mistake.”The details stated in any other case. So intense and sustained was the assault – it lasted for practically an hour and a half – so particular was the aiming for the antennae and satellite tv for pc dish on deck, that it was scarcely credible that Israel’s aggression was not deliberate; such was the view of Marshall Carter, the director of the Nationwide Safety Company, his deputy director Louis Tordella, and Richard Helms, the Director of Central Intelligence.Primarily based on interviews with greater than forty survivors, educated political insiders, and Soviet archives of the interval, investigative author Joan Mellen presents proof suggesting complicity between US and Israeli intelligence within the assault on Liberty and the greater than fifty-year lengthy cover-up. What had been the underlying motives? Was this a false flag operation performed within the midst of the Six-Day Warfare? Was it conceivable that Israel would have initiated such an operation with out a inexperienced gentle from the US?For the sake of justice, fact and the murdered and surviving sailors, it is a story demanding to be informed.