Writings, correspondence, notes, interview transcripts, photocopies of government documents, printed matter, photographs, and videocassettes relating to the Israeli naval and air attack on the American naval intelligence ship Liberty on 8 June 1967. Used as research material for the book by A. Jay Cristol, The Liberty Incident: The 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship (Washington, D.C., 2002) and for the revised edition of that book, The Liberty Incident Revealed: The Definitive Account of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship (Annapolis, 2013).

Ahron Jay Cristol is the chief judge of the Florida bankruptcy court, a lecturer in law of naval warfare, and a former U.S. Navy aviator and lawyer. He enrolled in the Graduate School of International Studies, where he spent ten years researching the USS Liberty incident of 8 June 1967. In his Ph.D. thesis, Cristol analyzed the official investigations of theLiberty incident and conducted interviews. Freedom of Information Act requests were used to obtain declassification of reports and documents. Cristol was also able to obtain classified Israeli documents. The conclusion of the thesis confirmed the official investigations and demonstrated that the attack on the USS Liberty was a mistake. In 1997, Cristol earned a Ph.D. degree on this work. In 2002, he published his analysis as a book.

95 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 5 card file boxes, 1 oversize item, 2 oversize folders (47.3 Linear Feet)

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