Comments by Contemporary Experts
A number of Johnson administration, military, and intelligence community officials - all of whom had access to classified materials regarding the attack - have commented on the conclusions they reached concerning the attack.
Administration Officials
- Lyndon B. Johnson, then-President of the United States
- Dean Rusk, then-Secretary of State
- Clark M. Clifford, then-Presidential Advisor and Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- Paul C. Warnke, then-General Legal Counsel of the Department of Defense
- George Ball, under secretary of state at the time
- Dwight Porter, former US Ambassador to Lebanon
- David G. Nes, the deputy head of the American mission in Cairo at the time
- George Christian, Press Secretary to President Lyndon Johnson
- John Stenbit, Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3I
- Raymond Tate, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Director, NSA
Members of Congress
Military Officials
Intelligence Community Officials
- Richard Helms, then-Director of Central Intelligence (CIA Director)
- Adm. Rufus Taylor, then-Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (CIA
Deputy Director)
- Lieutenant General William E. Odom, former director, National Security Agency
- Major General John Morrison, US Air Force, Deputy Chief NSA Operations during the attack and later Chief of NSA Operations
- Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, USN, Director National Security Agency 1977-1981
- Oliver Kirby, former deputy director for operations/production, National Security Agency
- Louis W. Tordella, former NSA Deputy Director
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