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DOCID: 4245882) FARLEY: FARLEY: NSA-OH-31-80 EUGENE SHECK 11 August 1980 by Robert D. Farley Henry Millington Today is the 1lth of August…
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DOCID: 4245882 move the ship." FARLEY: Have you read the book Assault on the Liberty? SHECK: No, I heard about it today for the first time.…
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DOCID: 4245882 FOP SECR=> SHECK: FARLEY: No, I can't truthfully answer. I don't know whether there was any effort not to put them on or to…
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DOCID: 4245882 FOP SEGRE} SHCEK: FARLEY: SHECKs FARLEY: MILLINGTON: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: Lewis was the CO, before they…
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DOCID: 4245882 TOP SECR—T_ ever considered or discussed? You've already answered this when you said there was no war on. SHECK: Well, first…
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SHECK: FARLEY : SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECKs FARLEY: DOCID: 4245882 They had a daily report they had to put out,…
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DOCID: 4245882 SHECK: FARLEY: SHECKs FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: That's right. Was there a direct channel of communication between NSA…
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DOCID: 4245882 FOP SEGR=y JRC. And the JRC responsibility was to, at that particular time, was to do nothing more than to become the filter…
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NN S-SCOC TT, DOCID: 4245882FOoP SEFecRET Sloman GERHARD: by direction from General Morrison, put out a memorandum sometime that said there…
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DOCID: 4245882 TOP-SEGREy;-— SHECKs It existed before the Liberty incident, yes. I don't think the Director of NSA then exercised as much…
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DOCID: 4245882- TOP SEGCR= FARLEY: What was your position in June of 1967 on Staff? SHECKs Yeah, I was Deputy Chief of K12, I guess we were…
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DOCID: 4245882 GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECKs: : operational considerations. Bob, I don't know whether I'm anticipating your question or…
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GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK:: DOCID: 4245882 FOP SEGRE, that area. While we never went…
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DOCID: 42458827OP SECR Tr FARLEY: SHECK: questions. He said, "Sure," or "No," or "NSA would not like that." I think the ones that were, the…
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DOCID: 42458 GERHARD: SHECK: hundred miles away, send it home if you're gonna do that, Well, when the war broke out, the first thing I…
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DOCID: 4245882 —TOP-SECRES MILLINGTON: SHECK: sinking it, I mean moving it away. I thought some Fleet Commander might just do that.…
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DOCTD: 4240882reP SECRET FARLEY: Fleet, I don't think, even knew who the USS Liberty was or where the Liberty was, because subsequent…
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DOCID: 4245 FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: movement thing, it had to go through the chain of command, sometimes, I would have to guess twelve,…
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DOCID: 4245882 1OP- SEGR=- SHECK: I don't remember the message. FARLEY: You didn't see it? SHECK: No. GERHARD: : I think, Bob, that that…
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DOCID: 4245862 FOP SECRET — PL 86-36/50 USC 3605 [J tnen go ahead and emphasize it, that is their responsibility, it wasn't mine. As long…
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DOCID: 4245882TOP SFep=--_ 7 dee FARLEY: SHECK: all the wheels, General Morrison and everybody. Then Jerry Burke was General Carter's D-1…
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DOCID: 4245882 TOP SEGR-Tt GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: While getting a platform on-station allows you to have a full 24-hour a day…
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DOCID: 424588 attacked the ship. Nobody had the remotest thought that the Israelis would have done that. When the first report came in, and…
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DOCID: 4245882 TOP SECRET FARLEY: So did we give him the “Ho Hum" treatment? SHECK: Oh, well, again, that's a case of, we talked to JCS…
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DOCID: 4245882FOP SECGRIT- SHECK: exercise an option of turning a mission off in view of changed circumstances?" I think that the Agency…
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DOCID: 424588 GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: from time to time and say, "I want you to assure me that the…
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DOCID: 4245882 FOP SECRET GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECKs: that anymore. We went out and put things on…
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DOCID: 4245882 TOP-SEGR=T- (3) EO 3.3b PL’86-36/50 USC 3605 those two incidents there was.a big move made by the United States Navy to not…
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DOCID: 4245882-FOP SEER= = GERHARD: This is information we can use in the book? SHECK: Yeah. FARLEY: Let me switch the tape please. TAPE 1,…
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DOCID: 4245882 TOP SEGREF_ was saying, "No way, baby, I didn't tell them anything like that." And so it was that, it was that because that…
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I _ OO DOCID: 424988 OP SECRET FARLEY: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: said, "Gees I...." Sorry about that. Yeah,…
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DOCID: 424588 ~ FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: GERHARD: was, the 7th of June, I guess, that was because it never got to the ship. My understanding…
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DOCID: 4245882 SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: : SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: Twelve miles, twelve miles. Your line-of-sight…
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DOCID: 4245882F6Pp Secor — smo A of that, we drew up, we drew up a number of charts, and they may still be available, for all I know, of…
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DOCID: 4245882F Op Secon : ime ik FARLEY: SHECK:: FARLEY? SHECK: MILLINGTON: time I think, went away. You see, there was pretty good…
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DOCID: 4245882 SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: i EO 3.3b(3) I guess I had better recreate my memory about that time. It seemed to me about that same…
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DOCID: 424588 op SECR—7_ are all right, but around that time. It seemed like it took about eight days for the ship to get to Malta. It was…
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eee DOCID: 4245882rop secRey which, but something trailed behind it and also picked up floating material that was coming out of this hole…
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Ne ——————— DOCID: 4245887°OP SEGRET— a FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: was classified material in it and that scared everybody then, so they…
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DOCID: 42458876P SEGR=y nl they had. We don't know what happened to half of them or all of them. Some of them burned, there was a fire,…
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DOCID: 4245882- 655 Scope a He was wounded in his leg pretty badly. He was still limping around badly when we saw him. His uniform was…
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DOCID: 424588@P-SECGR=-_ FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: None of that. He had a job to do, he was antsy about it, he talked about the…
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DOCID: 4245882F op Ssrem— = — FARLEY : SHECK: FARLEY: SHECKs s GERHARD: FARLEY: personality, very impressive personality. I talked to the…
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DOCID: 4245882 FARLEY: guess going back to your question. The requirements for airplanes were so high, priorities were so high for using…
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DOCID: 4245882... EO 3.3b(1) SHECK: A US submarine? FARLEY: Yes. Do you have any knowledge of that? SHECK: No, no I don't know that. There…
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SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECKs : FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: MILLINGTON: DOCID: 4245882 aust ime Yes, that's a figment of…
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DOCID: 4245882 FARLEY: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECKs FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: MILLINGTON: Talk about the Russ report. Did you…
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DOCID: 4245882ro5 ceepae SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: Not to my knowledge. You have said you did not participate in any investigation at all?…
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FARLEY: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: DOCID: 42458 Your participation in the preparation of the post mortem report? This is the…
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DOCID: 4245882 MILLINGTON: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: EO 3.3b(3) PL 86-36/50 USC 3605 saying "No, that's not quite accurate" and doing a little…
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DOCID: 4245882 . meet what they had really had gotten because it was all "collect | it! collect it! we'll look at it later," sort of thing.…
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DOCID: 4245882 MILLINGTON: SHECKs MILLINGTON: SHECKs relaying the information. I guess guys were hesitant to use it as much as they could…
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DOCID: 424588 GERHARD: SHECKs GERHARD: SHECKs GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECKs It was general service. Well, no it wasn't. It…
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DOCID: 4245882 can. All of that. Surface platforms properly configured, properly manned can have a great role and can still have a great…
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DOCID: 4245882 SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: that it probably wasn't your area. Oh boy, G Group probably answered that. I don't…
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DOCID: 4245882 We lost those, not because NSA wasn't fighting for them, when the Navy went through a real economic problem they were having…
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DOCID: 4245882 GERHARD: And Africa. SHECK: And Africa, they did all kinds of things off the coast of Africa at the time that they really…
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“DOGTD; .,4245882 FARLEY: Pueblo. When they were attacked he had his shirt off. He had to put on his khaki pants and skivvy shirt, and so…
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DOCID: 4245882TOP Seep. talked about lessons learned. Is there anything more that you want to add about lessons learned from both? SHECK:…
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DOCID: 424588 FARLEY: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECKs FARLEY: SHECK: GERHARD: is any doubt in that building that says Kadafi is going…
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DOCID: 4245882 SHECK: FARLEY: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: FARLEY: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: : MILLINGTON: SHECKs You can go COMINT…
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DOCID: 4245882 +oPSreR== collection, tell us how we are going to find something to do it. So up pops the surface platform. FARLEY: What was…
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DOCID: 42458821 OF SECRET SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: GERHARD: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: FARLEY: SHECK: Both the Valdez and the…
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DOCID: 4245882 9; about using the Liberty?" I'm sure that we might have said that. I might have said that. Dick Harvey might have, somebody…