[adam_az]

It's apparently too much these days to expect that journalists have basic competency in written English!

[AdmSmith]

Are you sure it was sloppy journalism?

It has been an official "secret" that the vessel was taken out in order to prevent LBJ from knowing and hence probably stopping the operation in Syria (Golan heights).

If the Israeli government wanted to dispute this they should have released their own tapes ASAP and not in 1987.