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1020Z 01 July 1967 transmitted message text from
U.S. Documents Officer, Allied Forces Southern Europe to
Chief of Naval Operations

R 011020Z JUL 67
FM USDOCSOUTH
TO CNO
INFO CINCUSNAVEUR
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T O P S E C R E T NOFORN
FOR CAPT KING OP-002, INFO LCDR FLINGERSON, ASST COUNSEL LIBERTY
COURT OF INQUIRY
SUBJ: LIBERTY
1. CINCUSNAVEUR 261649Z PASEP TO CNO FOR CAPT KING REFERS.
2. REFERENCE MSG TO BE INSERTED INTO LIBERTY RECORD TOGETHER WITH
FOLLOWING AMPLIFYING INFO.
3. JCS FACT FINDING TEAM EVIDENCED MUCH INTEREST IN LIBERTY COMMO
PRACTICES WHERE ROUTINE REPORTS AND REQUESTS FOR MISSED MSGS WERE
OFTEN PACKAGED UP WITH HER MORE CRITICAL OUTGOING TRAFFIC AS A
CABOOSE ON THE MAIN TRAIN. THIS PRACTICE COVERED IN DETAIL AS I
RECALL, IN CINCUSNAVEUR COVERING ENDORSEMENT. JCS TEAMS FEELING
SEEMED TO BE THAT SHIP WAS POSSIBLY A LITTLE SLIPSHOD IN FILING
SUCH ROUTINE REPORTS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO RECORD OF SOME OF HER
SITREPS AND POSITS EVER BEING RECEIVED.
4. MY CONVICTION FROM MOST CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH SURVIVING MEMBERS
SHIPS COMPANY WAS THAT SHIP WAS METICULOUSLY THOROUGH IN THIS AND ALL
OTHERS AREAS BUT COURT COULD NOT PROVE IT AT TIME REPORT SUB-
MITTED ON 18 JUNE. WE KEPT DIGGING HOWEVER AND REFERENCED MSG PROVES
WE WERE CORRECT.
5. THIS APPEARS TO BE LAST RECOVERABLE PIECE OF FACTUAL EVIDENCE
ON THIS ASPECT OF COMMUNICATION ISSUE WHICH FURTHER INTENSIFIES THE
SPOTLIGHT OF INDICTMENT ON SHORE BASED COMMUNICATIONS DIFFICULTIES.
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