ZGram - 7/15/2003 - "Sick!"

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ZGram- Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

JULY 15, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This is one ugly story! 

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USS Liberty - Israeli
Pilot Speaks Up

7-14-3

"We had been surveilled all morning and part of the afternoon by 
Israeli forces. They knew who we were. We heard them reporting over 
radio who we were and how we were sailing and where we were sailing. 
They saw the flag and everything else. We were in international 
waters."

Adlai Stevenson supported USS Liberty

Senator Adlai Stevenson III in 1980, his last year as a United States 
Senator from Illinois, invited Jim Ennes to his Senate office for a 
private, two hour meeting to discuss the USS Liberty attack and 
coverup. Following the private meeting, Ennes was invited back the 
next day to discuss the attack with members of Stevenson's staff, 
along with members of the staff of Senator Barry Goldwater and 
members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

In that meeting, staff members told Ennes that they found his story 
convincing, but that they would recommend to both senators that they 
not pursue an investigation because an investigation would only 
antagonize Israeli interests while "nothing good could come of it." 
Goldwater accepted that staff recommendation. Stevenson did not. 
Instead, Stevenson called a news conference in which he announced 
that he was convinced that the attack was deliberate and that the 
survivors deserved an investigation. He would, he said, spend the 
remaining few weeks of his Senate term attempting to arrange for an 
inquiry.

Almost immediately, the government of Israel contacted the White 
House and offered to settle the outstanding $40million damage claims 
for $6million an amount equal to one dollar for each Jewish victim of 
the Holocaust. Vice President Walter Mondale quickly agreed to that 
offer just before Christmas while Congress and President Carter were 
on vacation. The Department of State followed immediately with a 
press release, reported on the front page of the New York Times, 
which announced, "The book is now closed on the USS Liberty."

Indeed, from that point on, it was impossible to generate any 
congressional interest in the Liberty at all. Senator Stevenson's 
staff told me later that they felt the settlement was directly 
related to Senator Stevenson's announced plan to hold an inquiry, and 
was engineered to block forever any inquiry plans. Israel did 
subsequently pay $6million in three annual installments of $2million 
each. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said later that he considered the 
payments meaningless, as Congress merely increased the annual Israeli 
allotment by that amount.

Adlai Stevenson later ran for Governor of Illinois. He was strongly 
opposed by Israeli and Jewish interests. He lost. Many feel it was 
his support for the Liberty that cost him the election. Many also 
feel it was Stevenson's experience with the Liberty that has 
intimidated other Members of Congress who might otherwise support the 
survivors.

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If you care to read on, there is more.  
http://www.rense.com/general39/pilot.htm