28-05-2013, 08:46 AM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I'm amazed that this is apparently the only thread on the USS Liberty attack.
I agree with Tracy that this subject hasn't generated far more interest than it has thus far - not just here, but elsewhere too.
If it is true that Johnson agreed with the Israeli's to sink the Liberty with all hands lost, simply to create the excuse to start a war with Nasser's Egypt, then it is one of the great deceitful and disgraceful black operations of that period.
It also shows the lengths governments will go to gain their strategic objectives.
Quote:From Salem News:
A document that was located in the national archives by a survivor of the Liberty, indicated that a program called "Operation Cyanide" actually planned the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty months before it happened. It was a product of the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. Israeli officials will not comment on the matter over national security.
These entries appear on the Wikipedia page about the U.S.S. Liberty:
James Bamford, a former ABC News producer, in his 2001 book Body of Secrets, proposes a different possible motive for a deliberate attack: to prevent the discovery of a massacre by the IDF of Egyptian prisoners of war that was supposedly taking place at the same time in the nearby town of El-Arish. In 1995, mass graves of Egyptian soldiers were discovered outside of El-Arish, and IDF veterans have admitted that unarmed civilians and prisoners of war were murdered in the 1967 War.
In 2003, journalist Peter Hounam wrote Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III, which proposes a completely different theory regarding the incident. In an attempt to explain why there was no support by U.S. forces as backup, Hounam claims that Israel and U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson had secretly agreed on day four of the Six Day War that the Liberty would be sunk with complete loss of life. The attack would be blamed on Egypt, allowing the U.S. in turn to attack Egypt, thus helping out Israel. However, according to Hounam's theory, because the Liberty did not sink after two hours, the plan was quickly reversed, Israel apologized for the case of mistaken identity, and a cover-up was put into place.[4]{5]
The entire Wiki quote of the latter paragraph is no longer apparent, but there is a reference to Hounan and his book in the footnotes.
I knew a British TV documentary film producer who was desperate to make a doco about this subject, but just couldn't get the go ahead to do it. Based on what I was told, this operation very nearly did cause WWIII, in as much as nuclear bombers were launched and were close to their "go" lines when they were stood down, and "brown pants" were in evidence in the Pentagon that day.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14