[0173-2222] THE LIBERTY INCIDENT – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

On June 8, 1967, during the height of the Six-Day War, the unarmed technical research ship USS Liberty steamed through international waters flying a pristine American ensign. Without warning, unmarked Israeli Mirage fighters and high-speed torpedo boats executed a relentless, 74-minute coordinated assault utilizing napalm, armor-piercing cannon fire, and ship-killing torpedoes. Thirty-four American servicemen lost their lives, and 172 were wounded while desperately transmitting distress calls into an eerie administrative silence. Before the smoke cleared, Pentagon officials slapped Top Secret classifications over the casualty manifests, ordered the destruction of radio intercepts, and silenced surviving crew members under threat of court-martial. This Companion Dossier reconstructs the forensic record with chilling operational precision. Inside, examine the minute-by-minute tactical timeline, cryptologic communications logs from the ship’s flooded Research Spaces, declassified NSA cables, and internal White House routing sheets marked with cold dismissals. Built for intelligence researchers and naval historians, this dossier strips away decades of diplomatic sanitization to expose one of the Cold War’s most aggressively buried naval tragedies.