TRANSCRIPT - GOOD MORNING AMERICA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120123-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: September 19, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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TRANSCRIPT - GOOD MORNING AMERICA 19 September 1977
Steve Bell: There is a particular incident that has just come into the
papers this morning; namely that a group of Palestinian supporters in
the U.S. has taken out ads in the New York Times which use raw CIA
data gained from the Freedom of Information Act. The accusation is made
that Moshe Dayan specifically ordered the attack on the USS Liberty in
the 1967 Middle East War. Can you give us any enlightenment on that.
Admiral Turner: I certainly can and I am glad Steve, that you emphasized
the word raw intelligence data., We are required under the Freedom of
Information Act to produce to those who ask for it intelligence documents
which can be unclassified. In those which we released there were several
which indicated a possibility that the Israeli Government knew about the
USS Liberty before the attack. Also, we released an evaluated over-all
document which said very clearly that it was our considered opinion that
the Israeli Government had nosuch knowledge at that time.
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