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October 24, 2003
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The United States covered up an investigation of the 1967 attack by Israel on the USS Liberty, a former investigator charged. Capt. Ward Boston, a former Navy attorney who assisted in the investigation, said President Johnson and his defense secretary, Robert McNamara, instructed investigators to conclude that the attack, which killed 34 people, was unintentional.

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