A 2002 BBC documentary about the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. James Jesus Angleton makes an appearance, plus filmed interviews with Richard Helms and Robert McNamara refusing to tell us everything they know.
Dead in the Water (Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967)http://ionamiller2010.iwarp.com/whats_new_27.htmlThe following appeared in MILITARY HISTORY BOOK REVIEW MH-122 December 2003
"President Lyndon B. Johnson and some key officials, seeing the increasingly Soviet-leaning Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser as a threat, made secret arrangements to help Israel in its coming June offensive with the intention of toppling Nasser.
"As part of Operation Cyanide, USS LIBERTY was sent to operate off the Sinai coast, where it was to be sunk with all hands by unmarked Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats, after which the United States would blame the attack on Egypt and launch carrier airstrikes against Cairo...
"The stubborn refusal of LIBERTY'S crew to die or let their ship sink after 75 minutes of air and sea attack - in spite of two American carrier sorties to aid her being inexplicably called back - led to the cancellation of Operation Cyanide, Israel's apology and offer of restitution for a 'tragic mistake,' the Johnson Administration's swift acceptance of that explanation and an equally quick, reassuring 'hot line' telephone call to Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin."
