Sacrificing Liberty | show | 2020 | Official Trailer
The true story of the USS Liberty is more shocking than any spy novel written by Tom Clancy. The most top-secret spy sh | dHNfNlhGVG43MFJkc28
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00:02 That's what the world really doesn't know today
00:05 and I think it's why we were sworn to secrecy
00:07 is how close we really came
00:09 to a potential nuclear holocaust.
00:13 You know how much press the nuclear warheads got
00:17 when they landed in Cuba?
00:18 - The Stanford World Thermonuclear War.
00:21 - Well this was a thousand times worse,
00:23 but nobody knows about it.
00:25 - Another victim was the United States Naval
00:29 vessel Liberty.
00:30 She was mistaken for an Egyptian vessel
00:32 and Israeli ships and planes torpedoed and strafed her.
00:35 - The story of the Liberty is not a who done it,
00:37 it's a why did it.
00:38 - The casualties were high,
00:40 34 American dead and 75 wounded.
00:43 There were arguments later about how the error happened.
00:46 - The reality of what happened is it was not a mistake
00:49 and they wanted to sink us
00:51 and what does that mean to this country?
00:54 - Case closed, mistaken identity.
00:56 We're very sorry.
00:57 Is there anything else I can help you with?
00:59 - Well, there's no question.
01:05 It was a big coverup from the top on down.
01:08 - What did we do wrong?
01:10 Why were we, why are we being labeled the bad guys
01:13 and we can't talk about it?
01:16 - For the next 40 plus years,
01:18 I never said anything to anyone.
01:21 - No, never.
01:23 I knew it'd be at the end of my career
01:26 if I said anything.
01:28 - In the Naval Security Group, everything was secret.
01:31 So just one additional secret you had to keep.
01:35 - You just couldn't talk about it.
01:37 It was such a secret and with our lives threatened
01:41 and who knows if they were monitoring us or doing whatever.
01:45 - You ever repeat one word about the USS Liberty
01:48 and who did it to you,
01:50 I guarantee I'll see you in Leavenworth or worse.
01:53 You know what worse means?
01:55 When you're told by the President of the United States,
01:58 Secretary of Defense, keep your mouth shut,
02:02 don't say anything, and that's the direct order.
02:05 - Israel had America by the scruff of the neck.
02:08 Such was the need to cover up what America got up to
02:13 during the Six Day War.
02:15 - His girlfriend from the Mossad told him
02:18 that he could raise all kinds of money
02:20 to continue the Vietnam War.
02:23 - He had been contacted.
02:25 - By a man with a hoarse voice
02:27 who said that he'd been a pilot.
02:28 It attacked his liberty and suddenly he disappears.
02:31 There's no record.
02:32 Can only suspect that it was as he feared.
02:35 They deported him and they turned him over to the Israelis.
02:38 Took him back to Israel, court-martialed him secretly
02:40 and maybe had executed him.
02:42 - The Liberty is a microcosm of this much bigger problem
02:45 in the Middle East.
02:46 And Americans need to know what happened.
02:51 The story has to be told.
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02:55 - And so then we were under attack by unknown jet aircraft.
03:03 - They say get over it.
03:14 You don't get over something like this.
03:16 It haunts you.
03:17 - The men would bring the body pieces up to me
03:20 and I tried to put them together to make a body out of them.
03:24 - I don't know what the hell happened
03:25 and I haven't taken time to find out.
03:28 I know nothing about it.
03:29 - What I'm about to tell you is for your ears only.
03:34 You are not to tell anyone during my lifetime.
03:37 - I'm surprised I can even talk about that.
03:42 - Never say it.
03:50 - That type of horror, your body is not gonna remember.
03:53 Your brain's not gonna record it.
03:55 - I think we sacrificed a lot of people for no good reason.
04:05 - I am not saying anything about the Liberty, period.
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