Sgt. Bryce Lockwood
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USS Liberty was a spy ship back in the 1960s.
Several of the Sub-Saharan African countries had just won their independence from Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, France.
There was a heavy influence both from the Soviet Union and from Cuba.
Cubans had a lot of troops around the area.
That entire area is very wealthy in natural resources, precious metals.
And the United States wanted to keep track of what was going on over there.
Mind you, this is when satellites were pretty rudimentary.
So the best way to gather that information is to get close.
The USS Liberty was a World War II victory class freighter.
She was originally commissioned as the SS Simmons Victory.
She saw service as a cargo carrier during the Second World War.
Mothballed, brought back out of mothballs for the Korean War.
Ammunition carrier for the Korean War, back into mothballs.
And in 1965, when the National Security Agency decided they needed vessels of that type, her hull was probably in the best condition of almost any of them that were in the Ghost Fleet or the Mothball Fleet.
She was brought out of commission.
The U.S.
government spent $26 million in 1965 money.
Outclipping her with the latest in intelligence collection, we could suck up literally every frequency that was being used.
We had aboard her the world's largest mobile computer, the UNIVAC 500.
At that time, the world's largest.
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