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2147Z 08 June 1967 transmitted message text from
U.S.S. America to
Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)


O R 082147Z JUN 67
FM USS AMERICA
TO OASD PA
INFO COMSIXTHFLT
BT
C O N F I D E N T I A L
FLEET PAO SENDS
1. FOLLOWING NEWS COPY FORWARDED FOR YOUR ACTION
2. QUOTE FOR URGENT COLLECT TRANSMISSION TO NEW YORK TIMES NEW
YORK PARA PROFOREIGN DESK INSERT SHEEHANS NEW LEAD HARASSMENT
PARA
INSERT IN SHEEHANS NEW LEAD HARASSMENT AFTER THIRD PARA ENDING DASH
THEIR MISTAKES AND BOMBS PARA
IT WAS UNKNOWN HOW CLOSE THE AIRCRAFT APPROACHED TO THE SINI COAST
WHERE THE LIBERTY WAS TORPEDOED, BUT IT IS BELIEVED THEY DID FLY IN
THAT DIRECTION BEFORE THEY WERE RECALLED. THE AMERICA WAS ABOUT
SIXTY MILES SOUTH OF THE WESTERN END OF CRETE AND ABOUT 44: MILES
FROM SINAI WHEN THE JETS WERE LAUNCHED PARA
THE A-4 SKYHAWK ATTACK JETS ARMED WITH BOMBS ARE SUBSONIC PLANES, BUT
THE F-4 PHANTOMS WITH AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES ARE THE MOST ADVANCED OF
OPERATIONAL AMERICA FIGHTER-BOMBERS WITH A TOP SPEED OF ABOUT 1,400
MILES PER HOUR WHILE ARMED. PARA END INSERT. PICKUP AT FOURTH PARA IN
NEW LEAD HARASSMENT BEGINNING DASH THE FOUR F-4 PHANTOMS ETCETERA
FINIS/SHEEHAN UNQUOTE
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Note: See COMSIXTHFLT 081716Z JUN 67 for reason press copy sent to OASD(PA).