PUEBLO SITREP (AS OF 0700 EST)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 15886952
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-00781
• Publication Date: January 24, 1968

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24 January 1968
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
24 January 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
PUEpLO SITREP
(as of 0700 EST)
1. North Korea is continuing to take a hard
line on the Pueblo incident.
2. At today's Military Armistice Commission
meeting at panmunjom the senior Communist delegate,
Maj. Gen. Pak Chung-kuk, flatly rejected a US de-
mand for the immediate return of the Pueblo and
its crew. He charged the Pueblo had ZUEEnted "in-
tolerable provocations" whiii-IE-"illegally infil-
trated (into North Korean waters) on an espionage
mission" and further claimed the Pueblo's crew had
fired on North Korean patrol boats.
15.5 to 17 miles from the near-
est North Korean land mass. US Rear Adm. John V.
Smith had demanded that Pyongyang return the ship
and its 83,-man crew, apologize for the incident,
and be aware that the US reserves the right to
demand compensation.
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5. The US Task Force led by tile nuclear powered
aircraft carrier Enterprise, with destroyers Higbee,
Truxton, and Osbourn has moved to a new rendezvous
a765-1-70 nautical irles south of South Korea and
120 nautical miles southwest of Sasebo, Japan. The
destroyers Collett and O'Hannon are steaming toward
this rendezvous point.
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