PUEBLO SITREP NO. 22 (AS OF 5 P.M. EST)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06783661
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-00781
• Publication Date: January 30, 1968

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
30 January 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Pueblo Sitrep No. 22
(As of 5 P.M. EST)
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4. Communist East European information media
have continued a systematic anti-US presentation
of the incident--occasionally offset by balanced,
factual reporting. Some reports attack US credi-
bility by drawing parallels between the Pueblo
incident and the Tonkin Gulf "setup" in 1964, while
others claim the Pueblo's capture was part of a US
plan to exacerbati-Tagion'in Asia and justify the
mobilization of US reserve forces. A few commentaries
have linked the Pueblo with such other "aggressive
US global policies' as the Vietnam war, Cambodian
frontier invasions, and the hydrogen-bomb patrols
which have crashed in Greenland and Spain.
6. In Seoul, the government and ruling party
met again today to review domestic and international
issues stemming from last week's Pueblo seizure and
presidential assassination attemPT-WEU-to discuss
ways of dealing with the problems.
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