The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship

On June 8, 1967, at the height of the Six-Day War, Israeli air and naval forces attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence-collection ship, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171. Dozens of theories exist about what happened that day. Cristol draws on recently declassified documents, Israeli Air Force audiotapes of the attack, and interviews with such high-ranking officials as Robert McNamara and Yitzhak Rabin and a National Security Agency linguist who heard radio transmissions of the assault. What results is the most comprehensive examination of a tragedy that has been shrouded in suspicion for so many years.