PUEBLO SITREP NO. 32

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00928314
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-00781
• Publication Date: February 4, 1968

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
4 February 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Pueblo Sitrep No. 32
(As of 5:00 P.M. EST)
1. Radio Pyongyang said little.today about
the Panmunjom negotiations. A Domestic Service
broadcast reported that the senior members of the
North Korean and US delegations had met on 2 ,and
4 February "after many requests" from the "US side,"
and observed that "It seems that talks will be con-
tinued at Panmunjom in the future."
2. The North .Korean radio today carried.the
15-minute recorded "confession" of one Edward R.
Murphy, identified as the "executive officer and
navigator" of the Pueblo. This fourth pueblo crew-
man's "confession�Tirst broadcast in English
to the Middle East and Africa.
3. The Domestic Service today broadcast the
text of a letter from Premier Kit Il-song to a
North Korean army unit--commemorating yesterday's
20th anniversary of the "Korean People's Army"--
which noted Pyongyang's "capture of an armed spy-
ship" engaged in "serious aggressive activities"
and called for "revolutionary alertness, militant
vigilance, and . . full preparedness."
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