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

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2013. 1st edition. As New. octavo. dust jacket xiv + 392pp., b/w plates, text ills., notes, appends., bibliog., index, The complete and final story about the Israeli Air Force and Navy attack on the USS Liberty during the Six Day War in June 1967. Cutting through all of the controversy and conspiracy theories about Israel's deadly attack, Cristol revises his well-regarded book about the event with an expanded and in-depth analysis of all of the sources, including the released tapes of the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepts. When Cristol's first book on the subject, The Liberty Incident, was published in 2002, there remained many unanswered questions about Israeli Air Force audio tapes. The NSA intercepts tapes had not yet been released in 2002. Some conspiracy theorists alleged the NSA tapes would prove that the Israeli attack was premeditated