Retraction:
“The December 2025 edition of the LVA newsletter include unsubstantiated claims that Station HYPO – A POPULAR, UNOFFICIAL Navy cryptologic history website – was engaged in censoring information about the USS Liberty and the deadly 1967 attack upon the ship by Israeli forces. Station HYPO is edited and maintained by CWO Mario Vulcano, USN (ret.). It has been brought to our attention that the Liberty articles on the blog were removed as part of a mass purge in 2024 of all material on the blog for reasons unrelated to the USS Liberty. Since then, CWO Vulcano has published more than a dozen posts pertaining to the USS Liberty on Station HYPO. In sum, there was no censorship or suppression of “Liberty history” by Station HYPO. The USS Liberty Veterans Association apologizes to CWO Vulcano for failing to exercise our due diligence before publishing the false allegation made in the last newsletter and we thank him for his ongoing support in commemorating the men of the USS Liberty.”
