USS Liberty: draft article
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>Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:20:08 -0700
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>From: Jim Ennes
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>At 10:02 AM 5/30/97 -0700, Mike Potter wrote:
> >Last year I contacted a pro-Israeli partisan who supposedly could
> >discuss USS =Liberty= (AGTR 5). He provided no information and assailed
> >me personally as anti-Semitic for raising the issue. (I have,
> >incidentally, a Jewish relative by marriage who perished in the
> >Holocaust, probably at Auschwitz-Birkenau; his daughter is my aunt.) Try
> >it: e-mail your questions to Prof Alan Stein at the University of
> >Connecticut, stein@math.uconn.edu. His apparently publicly-funded web
> >site, http://www.math.uconn.edu/~stein, also calls (or did last year)
> >Jim Ennes an anti-Semite. I thought scholars were supposed to be
> >open-minded. Anyway, this situation could explain why list masters might
> >discourage discussion of the =Liberty= incident.
>
>FYI, I was advised to sue for damages for that anti-Semite charge.
>Instead I asked the university to have the remark removed. The
>University forwarded my letter to the State Attorney General who
>advised the appropriate people at the University that (1) the remark
>should be removed and (2) Professor Stein’s use of the publicly owned
>server exceeds the purpose for which it is authorized and that Stein’s
>web site should be removed.
>
>Instead, Stein made some minor changes to the language, still
>suggesting falsely that there are some anti-Semitic motives. His
>web site remains.
> >
> >In =Assault on the Liberty= Jim Ennes hypothesized that Israel attempted
> >to “dispatch” her so that she could not discover the plan to take the
> >Golan Heights. Since communications interception is passive, Israel
> >could be sure that =Liberty= was deaf only after her antennas were
> >submerged. But Israeli forces ended their attack before that point.
>
>Submerged or cut off. The first targets of the jets appeared to be the
>antennas. They fired aircraft missiles at every one, disabling them
>all. The only reason we got a message out was that one of my
>ETs (I was electronic materiel officer) managed to repair one.
>
>Jim