Could be. The way I had read it, the stories from both sides actually there sounded like they were struggling to avoid hide their own incompetence. The sort of story “they had to have seen the flag” weak stuff. But the more I read, it is possible we were feeding the Egyptians.
I probably should have added that I don’t think the Liberty was feeding information to Egypt. They were gathering information and feeding it back to the U.S.
So if the information was then passed on to the other side, that would have been on LBJ’s orders. In other words, if that’s what happened—and it’s not really certain—then the ship was put into an untenable position by their Commander in Chief.
Which is essentially also what LBJ did in Vietnam—putting troops into harm’s way while he micro-mis-managed the war. And they would have won it anyway, given the chance.