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(SANITIZED)COMMENT ON KNOWN IDENTITY OF USS LIBERTY/RESUMPTION OF OIL PRODUCTION OF RED SEA WALLS BY ISRAEL
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0001286835
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RIPPUB
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U
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1
Document Creation Date:
June 22, 2015
Document Release Date:
February 25, 2009
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Case Number:
F-2009-00317
Publication Date:
July 27, 1967
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1 AII619 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Ti>s material contains information o5radin9*11ve Nal;o:-al C-.,n:,, : .,,o !r,:-.-d -1Ij:es wi:hin the mraninq of 1'.0 Espionago Ea..' . TWO
15, U.S.C. Sou. 793 and 794, tho transmission or ro-,nn,irn of ?..,.i, n, .. i. -':.cr :o an s7nwlhor:zed person is P:ohibilad by low,
SUBJECT 1 Ca~se.n .'
on AnOvfl Identity Or ass-_ Jr/
Reauaption of Oil Production of Red Sea
Walls by Israel
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,DATE OF INFO. Fhr'Jy Jun 67
PLACE a DATE ACQ.._Tgl_Ayjy
THIS 15 UNEVALUATED N.cQRMATION
brouht up the attach on the USS LIBMM by
Israeli airplanes and torpedo boot,. He said that "yo'zsve got to
remember that in this campaign theme is neither tine nor ro si for
mistakes, "vhieh was intended as as obtu3o rateronce that Israel's
.forces know what flag the and exactly what the
vessel was doing off the coast. implied that the abip's
identity wa:; known at leant six ours afore the attack but that
Israeli headquarters was not sure an to haw many people might have
access ':.o the information the LIBERTY was intercepting. 8e aloe
Lisplied that .here was no certainty of control as to where the Inter-
cepted information was going and again reiterated that Toracli foreen
did not make nistakec in their campaign. !:a vas emphatic in etetina
to me that they knew what kind of a ship the USS LdnEW was and. what
it was, doing offshore.
t.ton facilities. Be telkcd about two field:. near the Gulf of Suez
as the Simi Peninsula utich had bee-- sot :fire by the Arabs. Is aeli
forces extinguished the. fires the same day that the fields were cap-
tured and were then. (10-11 Jun 67) starting to pump oil. Both ^ tiaa
we been developed by foreign companies and
Drael intends to continue pro-rata payments.
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