USS Liberty
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The USS Liberty was a Belmont-class technical research ship[1], belonging to the United States Navy. The most notable event concerning it was an attack on it in international waters near the town of El Arish on June 8 1967 (during the Six Day War, by Israeli fighter planes and torpedo boats. The attack killed 34 US servicemen and killed 173, making it the second deadliest attack against a US warship since the end of World War II.
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Further Reading
[http://www.nsa.gov/liberty/liber00010.pdf NSA investigation (warning - large (~15Mb) download)