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To: adam_az; jmeadors
...so when you still say there are still other secret decrypts that are being covered up (why?)

There's still operational material from WWII that remains classified. Disclosure of that information carries the weight of the same penalty for violation of the Natuional Security act as that of our most recent operations in Iraq. Neither would I be at all surprised if there is still classified information going back even further, to WWI or before. And information about the potential use of Israeli nuclear weapons in 1967 would certainly be on the Israeli *crown jewels* list; they still get pretty testy about that sort of thing....

I do, however, know that there are still classified data from operations in 1967 and 1968; I was involved in them.

You tend sound like a frothy lunatic.

Well, in June of '67 I'd just returned from a tour on the German 5km border zone and very shortly thereafter found myself was aboard a transport ship in an Italian harbour along with most of the other guys from my tank battallion- and our 51 M60 and three Headquarters Company M60A1 tanks, fuelled and ammo-ed up and ready to shoot- waiting for the word to go to Israel and kill Egyptian, Syrian or Jordanian tank crews, which most of us were pretty much looking forward to: ours was the top-scoring tank battalion at the *Table 8* tank gunnery range course at the firing ranges at Grafenwohr in '67, we were good and we knew it. We were looking forward to the possibility, though after we heard what the Israelis had done to the guys aboard the Liberty we were kind of looking forward to mistaking some of them for *enemy horse transporter ships* ourselves.

But I'm not the one keeping the Frontlet 615 and Amberjack info classified so those *six internal investigations* didn't have it available. I may be a frothy lunatic, but I'm not the one covering up deliberate murder and war crimes. And I wonder if the families of those aboard the USS Scorpion will ever be told what really happened to that crew in the Azores a year or so later after Scorpion's Mediterranean cruise in February of 1968, about a month after the USS Pueblo crew had their own bad day at the office, just before Tet '68. Durn, those ELINT ships had some *bad luck....*

-archy-/-


34 posted on 07/09/2003 2:30:13 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: archy
. I may be a frothy lunatic, but I'm not the one covering up deliberate murder and war crimes.

No, you're acting like a frothy lunatic because you see a conspiracy and coverup where there is no evidence of one.

BTW, you NEVER would have had a chance to kill Egyptian tanks, because the guys a few pay grades above you didn't want to risk having the Soviets come to the defense of Arabs in an overt manner. (as opposed to the covert manner in which Soviet pilots flew Arab air force planes.)
35 posted on 07/09/2003 2:42:22 PM PDT by adam_az
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