US warships again challenge Beijing's claims in South China Sea

[Cold War Spook]

16. I have never fully grasped what happened.

I figure it has to be one of two ways. One, Mossad's intel was bad. They wanted to attack the Golan Heights and knew that we would stop sending them supplies if we found out about it before they took the land. So they attacked our spy ship figuring that since it was close to Israel it had to have Hebrew translators aboard. They didn't want it to pick up anything about the Golan Heights. That was the bad intel. All translators aboard were Russian translators. Even if there had been Hebrew translators aboard, we also had Hebrew translators at classified land sites so attacking the ship would have been meaningless. Two, it was all a big mistake. The ship had already been identified and it did not look anything like an Egyptian barge. That is my problem, it has to be one or the other, but neither fits. 1963-1967 a Russian translator with the Army Security Agency working for the National Security Agency.