"I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous."
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1967Foreign relations of the United StatesArab-Israeli conflict20th century in IsraelUnited States Navy
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Dean Rusk, who was United States Secretary of State during the attack, in his memoirs As I Saw It (1990)
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