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8 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday, September 28, 1978
By WOLF BIJTZER
WASHINGTON - The United States and Israel are pooling their resources to combat international
terrorism.
Official of both governments are involved in regular, often daily exchanges  of intelligence about
U.S. SENT "LIBERTY" SPYSHfP TO CONTROL ISRAEL IN'67 WAR
LONDON — When Israel aircraft and torpedo boats knocked out the American telecommunication ship "Liberty" not far from EI Arish, on the fourth day of the Six-Day War in 1967, the attack was described by the Israeli government as "a tragic mistake of idenification.
This explanation, accepted at the time by the U.S. Administration, is rejected by M. Anthony Pearson in a book, published recently, in which he insists that IsraePs attack on the "Liberty" was deliberate.
The book, entitled Conspiracy of Silence: The Attack on the VSS Liberty, is published . by Quartet Books.
Pearson quotes an unnamed Pentagon general as telling him^hat the
Americans feared in 1967 that if the war went badly for the Israelis, they, might send missiles even nuclear missiles — against Arab cities, which would bring direct Soviet intervention.
To prevent this, Pearson's Pentagon general allegedly said that the Americans had promised the Russians that if Israel tried thus to escalate the war they "would personally knock out all the Israeli missile sites and bomber bases and even airborne bombers."
"Liberty," accompanied by an American Polaris submarine, was charged with monitoring the war situation to that effect, though Pearson's Pentagon source admittedly does not think the Israelis knew all this.
Pearson maintains that the Israel-_ is hit the "Liberty" simply to prevent her communicating to Washington that the Israelis had successfully distorted radio messiages between Nasser and Hussein; that they had occupied Jordanian territory "in Jerusalem and the West Bank; and that^they were intent on pushing back the Syrians on the Golan Heights before agreeing to the U.N. ceasefire call
The author leaves out of account that at that stage of the Six-Daiy War those facts were already widely known to journalists in Israel — there was no need for the Israelis to view them as secrets. JCNS.
' suspected terrorists, planned operations and the latest technological advances designed to thwart sabotage missions.
Israel's detention of Sami Ismail, an American-born Palestinian recently convicted in an Israeli court of training in Libya with a Palestinian terrorst organization, followed information relayed to Israel from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Well-jjiaced U.S. sources have disclosed that Israeli police authorities have similarly given the United States information leading to the arrest here of suspected terrorists.
They note that Israel's expertise in the field of counter-terrorism, learned painfully over the years during an ongoing battle against Palestinian terrorism, is proving "invaluable" to the United States, which has not yet faced the kind of international terrorist attacks which have been afflicting European capitals.
American officials recognize that the Onited States is not immune. "It can happen here," one official said, . explaining why the U.S. Government has lately expanded its anti-terrorist operation.
There has been a special branch of the State Department charged with combating global terrorism for three years. But only recently has it become the focal point for coordinating the entire U.S. Government's assault on international terrorism.
Its new director, Anthony Quainton, who has the rank of ambassador, says that the office is responsible for the "preparation of detailed contingency plans" and "crisis management." The department's operations centre is always on duty and can communicate at once
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WorldJewish News ................................. Pages 3, 5, 8, 9
Guest Editorial — Rabbi D. Siegel........................... Page 4
Letters to the Editor................ ......... .............. Page 6
Ask the Rabbi...........................................••• Page 10
Yom Tow Services......................................• • • Page 11
Kishon Commentary^....................................... Page 12
Social and Personal..... ..................... Pages 22 and 23
Lazar writes Between Ourselves............................ Page 24
YOUR PERSONAL NEW YEAR GREETINGS..........Pages 13 to 19
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Satire Is Serious— Kishon................................. Page 25
Falasha struggle for riBCO£|nltton........................... Page 27
Ukrainian nationalism threatens Jews .......... ............ Page 29
New Mideast thriller — Ages reviews........................ Page 31
Finding Herod's tomb..................................... Page33
Jews Round the Worid — Freedman........................ Page 35
Israelis become Jews — Zeiner..... ...... ............... Page 37
Trace Slavery Roots to Arabs..................... Page 38
We made Allya.............................. Page 39
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Islam not Utopia for Jews ..... ...................... Page 41
No man without a woman . ......... ............. Page 43
The Jewish Scene In 5738 — WIgoder...................... Page 49
Palestine Memoir — Biely .... ................... Page 54
Sounds of silent Paul Simon................................ Page 55
Howard Fast meets the press............................... Page 57
Paradox In Romania ...... — —............ Page 61
Habitat under the Red Sea ........................... Page 62
Israeli Arabs: Problem & Opperfuhity....................... Page 63
"Everything's possible" for immigrant ................ Page 65
Hungary's Jews are unique .......... ..... ....... Page 66
Leading In solar energy ....    ...... *... .... Page 67
Atlanta Black Jewish Family —...... Page 68
Maimonides' Mishheh Torah at 800 .......v.. •........ ..... Page 69
Allya of a special nature ....... —......... Page 71
U.S. cellist wins in Moscow ....       —        ............Page 72
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with other related agencies, and senior officials and U.S. diplomatic missions abroad.
Quainton and his staff are also responsible for cooperation with other "friendly" governments, such as Israel, in collecting and analysing intelligence.
In the field of aviation terrorism, including hijackings, sabotage missions and bombings, Israel and its national airline. El Al, has taken the lead in providing 'security for passengers.
they have beeii urging other
nationial airlines to do the same, with mixed results.
"If government and airlines do not show greater (^eti^ritiination to deal with the armed interference with commercial airlines and their passengers, this may pose a threat to the very existence of civil air transport," said Mordecai Ben-Ari, executive chairman of "the EI Al board.
Bdn-Ari also said during a recent visit here: "Only a policy of'active (Continued on pag^ 9) see: TERROR
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