USS Liberty?

Reader comment on item: The Soviets' Six-Day War

Submitted by Patrick Hupp (United States), May 29, 2007 at 15:15

Along with the many "exciting interpretation for others to chew on" that I am sure a book like this offers, does this book bring to light any new implications for the Israeli attack on a U.S. surveillance ship USS Liberty?

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Daniel Pipes replies:

Chapter 18 is titled "The Liberty Incident: Soviet Fingerprints" and argues that the ship was there primarily to track Soviet, not Israeli movements.

The authors even raise the "ironic possibility" that the Israeli attack "actually did deprive the United States - and perhaps Israel - of a warning about the Soviet landing plans [on the Israeli coast]."