The Liberty Incident

National Security Agency Release of 2 July 2003

Two excerpts of note from the National Security Agency Report of 1981 are shown here with highlighting added for emphasis. First, the opening paragraph of the Forward (page vii; page 7 of PDF) shows the position of the NSA on the Liberty incident.

In previous declassifications of the NSA report, a part of a paragraph on page 64 (page 72 of PDF) of the report had been redacted. In the 2 July 2003 declassification of the report, the full text of this paragraph is revealed. The paragraph is shown as it appeared in the respective versions of the report.

2 July 2003:
Prior version:

Readers wishing to authenticate these excerpts should download the report directly from the NSA website.

Other documents available from the NSA website include:

Recording "104" (32.8 M WAV file) from 1229 to 1244 GMT on 8 June 1967 with translated transcript (8 M PDF)
Recording "105" (76.3 M WAV file) from 1247 to 1319 GMT on 8 June 1967 with translated transcript (2.8 M PDF)
Recording "130" (13.6 M WAV file) from 1307 to 1311 GMT on 8 June 1967 with translated transcript (824 K PDF)
Follow-up Report No. 1 (1.3 M PDF) from 0831 GMT 9 June 1967
Follow-up Report No. 2 (552 K PDF) from 1422 GMT 9 June 1967
Summary of Attack on Liberty (5.5 M PDF) from 22 June 1967