USS Liberty..........America’s spy ship, was attacked
by Israelis disguised as Egyptian forces that killed 37 sailors and
wounded 174 seriously. According to the plan of Israeli Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan, the Liberty would have sunk and
Egypt blamed for the attack.
Liberty was listening to Israeli military
communications, to prevent Israel going to war with Syria and
provoking a U.S-Soviet confrontation. Dayan ordered the attack to
prevent it giving warning of his intentions to attack Syria after
he had taken the West Bank of Jordan.
As it happened, Israel’s last land grab of the war was the
Syrian Golan Heights .
Israel’s attack on the Liberty ought to have been a
headline-grabbing news story, but wasn't reported by American news.
Instead....... President Johnson called off American warplanes
scrambled to help the Liberty out of fear of offending the Zionist
lobby in Congress, and ordered a cover-up to this day.