Via
Lataan, a story - conveyed by an Israeli using the
False Flag Times - from the Israelis that the CIA chief in Tel Aviv asked the Israelis to attack the USS Liberty (my emphasis in red):
"
Almost 45 years ago, on May 25, 1967, in the midst of the international
crisis that precipitated the Six-Day War, Amit, then head of the Mossad,
summoned John Hadden, the C.I.A. chief in Tel Aviv, to an urgent
meeting at his home. The meeting took place against the background of
the mounting tensions in the Middle East, the concentration of a massive
Egyptian force in the Sinai Peninsula, the closing of the Straits of
Tiran to Israeli shipping and the threats by President Gamal Abdel
Nasser to destroy the State of Israel.
In what he later described as “the most difficult meeting I have ever
had with a representative of a foreign intelligence service,” Amit laid
out Israel’s arguments for attacking Egypt. The conversation between
them, which was transcribed in the document Amit passed on to me, went
as follows:
Amit: “We are approaching a turning point that is more important for you
than it is for us. After all, you people know everything. We are in a
grave situation, and I believe we have reached it, because we have not
acted yet. . . . Personally, I am sorry that we did not react
immediately. It is possible that we may have broken some rules if we
had, but the outcome would have been to your benefit. I was in favor of
acting. We should have struck before the build-up.”
Hadden: “That would have brought Russia and the United States against you.”
Amit: “You are wrong. . . . We have now reached a new stage, after the
expulsion of the U.N. inspectors. You should know that it’s your
problem, not ours.”
Hadden: “Help us by giving us a good reason to come in on your side. Get
them to fire at something, a ship, for example.”
Amit: “That is not the point.”
Hadden: “If you attack, the United States will land forces to help the attacked state protect itself.”
Amit: “I can’t believe what I am hearing.”
Hadden: “Do not surprise us.”
Amit: “Surprise is one of the secrets of success.”
Hadden: “I don’t know what the significance of American aid is for you.”
Amit: “It isn’t aid for us, it is for yourselves.”
That ill-tempered meeting, and Hadden’s threats, encouraged the Israeli
security cabinet to ban the military from carrying out an immediate
assault against the Egyptian troops in the Sinai, although they were
perceived as a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Amit did not
accept Hadden’s response as final, however, and flew to the United
States to meet with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Upon his return,
he reported to the Israeli cabinet that when he told McNamara that
Israel could not reconcile itself to Egypt’s military actions, the
secretary replied, “I read you very clearly.” When Amit then asked
McNamara if he should remain in Washington for another week, to see how
matters developed, McNamara responded, “Young man, go home, that is
where you are needed now.”
From this exchange, Amit concluded that the United States was giving
Israel “a flickering green light” to attack Egypt. He told the cabinet
that if the Americans were given one more week to exhaust their
diplomatic efforts, “they will hesitate to act against us.” The next
day, the cabinet decided to begin the Six-Day War, which changed the
course of Middle Eastern history.
Amit handed me the minutes of that conversation from the same armchair
that he sat in during his meeting with Hadden. It is striking how that
dialogue anticipated the one now under way between Israel and the United
States. Substitute “Tehran” for “Cairo” and “Strait of Hormuz” for
“Straits of Tiran,” and it could have taken place this past week."
The USS Liberty was attacked on June 8, 1967. The Six-Day War ran from June 5 to 10, 1967.
Hadden was almost certainly an 'America-firster', who worked
against the Israeli nuclear bomb program and the traitorous Israeli-firsters who stole the uranium required. On the other hand, he confirms the 'green light' theory (see Appendix II to this
pdf), and has stated he believes the attack was a mistake.
So why is Israel bringing this up through its house organ, the
False Flag Times? Paul
Woodward:
"Bergman writes: “Since 1967, the unspoken understanding that America
should agree, at least tacitly, to Israeli military actions has been at
the center of relations between the two countries.”
The telling of
the Amit-Hadden exchange, seems like a way of signalling that as far as
Israel is concerned, come the time that it decides to launch an attack
on Iran, the United States has no choice but to “agree.” Indeed, Israel
is happy to point to the history of U.S. complicity in Israel’s acts of
war, including the willingness of an American official to invite an
Israeli instigated attack on a U.S. ship in order to fabricate a
justification for entering a war.
In other words, transposing the
1967 incident to the current context, the Israelis want to insinuate
that if the U.S. Fifth Fleet is attacked by “Iran” in the coming months
and Israel covertly has a hand in this attack, then in truth Israel will
merely be “helping” the United States to do what it wants to do at a
time when domestic political considerations prevent Washington from
being open about its intentions.
The irony about Hadden’s
invitation in 1967 is that in some sense the Israelis did pick it up two
weeks later. But rather than engineer an “Egyptian” attack on a U.S.
ship, the Israelis attacked the U.S.S. Liberty claiming they thought it was an Egyptian ship.
Was
Israel punishing the U.S. for its neutrality in the Six-Day War —
knowing that it could do so with impunity because the U.S. could not
suffer the embarrassment that would have been caused by revealing the
CIA’s willingness to sacrifice Americans?"
The aircraft carriers in the area are sitting ducks for an Israeli attack, and America-firsters should get them out of there.