USS Liberty Survivor Reveals What Really Happened the Day Israel Attacked & the Lies Covering It Up
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What is the USS Liberty and why was it converted into an NSA intelligence ship?
Mr. Lockwood, thank you very much for joining us. My pleasure. Tell us, the USS Liberty, many people have heard the name. They're aware there's a controversy about what happened to the ship in 1967. If you wouldn't mind starting at the beginning and telling us the story of the USS Liberty.
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. You could likely do about as much with their cell phone now. But technology has come a long ways in the last 60 years.
She was equipped with linguists, cruised up and down the west coast of Africa, listening in onto whatever was going on. As war appeared to be imminent between Israel and her neighbors in 1967, the neighbors included what was then called the United Arab Republic, primarily Egypt, Syria to a lesser extent, some influence from Jordan and Libya. The administration set some F-4 photograph planes, high performance photo intelligence planes to a Turon air base in Spain. Those markings were obliterated. The pilots were given neutral uniforms and neutral identification. and set to overfly Israel's neighbors. When hostilities broke out, June of 1967, the Israelis had intelligence courtesy of the US administration, locating every aircraft, every tank, location of personnel, where they were riveted, where they were based and so forth.
Hostilities broke out on the 5th of June, 1967. The National Security Agency had ordered the USS Liberty proceed from her cruise up and down the west coast of Africa with all due speed to Rota, Spain, take on stores, refuel, pick up six additional linguists, and proceed with haste to the eastern Mediterranean where they could monitor what was going on. She was stacked with linguists out of a crew of 294 aboard the ship. Roughly 190 were intelligence personnel. Linguists, code breakers, manual morse operators, voice intercept operators, so forth. The Soviets had a group of TU-95 long-range bombers equipped for intelligence collection at Alexandria, Egypt. They told the world that... They'd given those planes to Egypt and that they were manned by Egyptian troops.
Such was not the case. They were Soviet troops wearing Egyptian uniforms. The task that we were given as linguists, there were three of us Russian linguists aboard her. We had three watch sections rotating eight hours each. The three of us Russian linguists that were assigned as voice intercept section supervisors, our primary task was catching those Soviet Tu-95 intelligence aircraft in Alexandria. The aircraft would communicate in plain language Egyptian until they were airborne and over the Mediterranean Sea, change frequencies and go to plain language Russian. It was ironic that while we were under attack, my relief came into the processing and reporting room where I was and said, hey, Sarge, I got him, I got him.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the USS Liberty and why was it converted into an NSA intelligence ship?
0:04–9:06
2
How did the USS Liberty get deployed to the eastern Mediterranean during the Six-Day War?
9:06–22:19
3
What happened during the initial air and torpedo attack on the Liberty?
22:19–45:34
4
How did survivors like Bryce Lockwood rescue shipmates during flooding and fires?
45:34–57:42
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