ISRAELI <SANITIZED>COMMENT ON KNOWN IDENTITY OF USS LIBERTY/RESUMPTION OF OIL PRODUCTION OF RED SEA WALLS BY ISRAEL

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• Publication Date: July 27, 1967

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'SUBJECT Iaraell Cazzenti DATE CzsTR 27 Jul 67
on iCnown Identity of USS LrEcraPf/
Besuaption of Oil Praline Lion of Red Sea NO PAGES 1
Walls by Ierael
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-SOURCE US citizen. Source is a staff member of a US newspaper and was In
Israel iscsod4 ar.417 after the outbreak of the Israel-Arab Conflict.
� Around 1041 Jan 67 while In Tel Aviv I talked with an Israeli
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was formerly in the oil business.
. In our conversation I broUght up the attach on the USS LIBMITY by
Israeli airplanes and torpedo boats. He acid that "you've got to
remember that in this campaign there 13 neither time nor roam for
mistakes, "whiCh was intended as an Obtuse referee= that Israel's
forces knew v.ohat flag the LEMOVIvan flying and exactly what the
vessel was doing off the coast. The Israeli implied that the Chip's
identity van known at least mix hours before the attack but that
Ione* headquarters was not sure as to how many people might have
access to the information the LIBERTY vas intercepting. Se aloe
Implied that -here was no certainty of control ao to where the inter-
cepted inf=atissi was going and again reiterated that Ieracli forces
did not make mistakes In their campaign. En was emphatic in eteting
to ma that they knell:what kind of a ship the USS LIM= was and What
it mac doing off/those.
3. Bemulo of his oil background I inquired as to resumption of produc-
tion facilities. Be talka about two fields near the Calf of Suez"
on the Sinai Peninsula which had bee.; sot afire by the Arabs. Israeli
forces extinguished the. fires the eama day that the fields were cap-
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.tured and were then. (10-11 Jun 67) starting to pump oil. Both ggyptian
field� vere said to have been developed by foreign companies and, scaora-
ins to the Israo1i, /prowl intends to continue pro.rata payments.
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