"Attack on the USS Liberty: An edited version of SRH-256" is a
compilation of several vital documents related from both sides of the
controversy.

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Contents include:

1. The partially-censored official investigation into the attack by
William Gerhard of the National Security Agency.  Among the interesting
revelations in this report are the observations that the Deputy
Director of the Agency, upon reviewing the Israel official report
(Item #2, below), wrote in the margin, "a nice whitewash," and the
comment of author Gerhard that "exculpation of Israeli nationals
apparently (was not) hindmost in the calculations" of the Israeli
court of inquiry.

2.  Israel's official "preliminary investigation" into the attack by
Israeli Judge Sgan-Aluf I. Yerushalmi which concluded that the attack
was a "tragic accident," along with transmittal letter from Under
Secretary of State Gene Rostow forwarding the report to the Secretary of
State.  Rostow notes that the Israeli government requested that the
report not be released to the American public.  Accordingly, that report
has resisted all attempts to obtain release under the Freedom of
Information Act and is still officially unavailable on the grounds that
"release would embarrass an ally."  It is available here only because it
was leaked to USS Liberty survivors by a concerned senior US Navy
officer.

3.  The Salans Report.  This is the official review of the Yerushalmi
report by the Legal Advisor to the Secretary of State.  Its author, Carl
Salans, considers each of Yerushalmi's points item by item, rejecting
each one in turn as untrue, unlikely, or contrary to sworn testimony of
the crew.  The Salans Report was itself classified top secret for many
years until forced out under the Freedom of Information Act following
more than $14,000 in legal actions by USS Liberty Deputy Historian James
Miller.

4.  The book contains numerous photos of damage and of recovery
operations.

5.  "A Juridical Examination of the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty"
by Lieutenant Commander Walter L. Jacobsen, JAGC, USN.  This report,
prepared by Commander Jacobsen as a graduate school thesis at George
Washington University, provides an analysis of the attack in light of
existing international precepts as they relate to intelligence
gathering, freedom of the seas, aggression, and self-defense.  The
author concludes that the attack was not supportable in international
law, that certain war crimes were committed by the attacking forces
during the attack, and that a thorough, public investigation into the
attack should be conducted by the United States Congress.  Commander
Jacobsen's thesis was published originally in the Winter, 1986, Naval
Law Review.  Commander Jacobsen was described by his faculty advisor
at George Washington University as the most brilliant student ever
seen in that professor's long career.  

Commander Jacobsen died of cancer in 1991.

6.  A five page bibliography of Liberty-related books, published
articles, government documents, and media events.

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