PUEBLO SITREP NO. 5 (AS OF 0700 EST)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00847710
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-00781
• Publication Date: January 25, 1968

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
25 January 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
PUEBLO SITREP NO. 5
(As of 0700 EST)
1. North Korea has made no statements or taken
any actions pointing to an early release of the Pueblo
and its crew.
3. Embassy Seoul's new translation of North
Korean statements made at yesterday's Military Armi-
stice Commission meeting, however, now shows that the
Communist general did not state the Pueblo "will re-
main in our hands"--as reported earlier--but simply
that it "is in our hands." The Embassy says "He did
not repeat not make any reference to North Korean in-
tentions with respect to the disposition of either
crew or vessel."
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6. The U.S. Task Force led by the nuclear car-
rier Enterprise has moved up the South Korean coast to
a position 14 nautical miles off Pangojin, about 25
miles northeast of Pusan.
7. Two Soviet vessels are now following the U.S.
Task Force: one guided missile destroyer, 4 miles away,
and one trawler-type vessel, 8 miles away.
8.
Today's Pravda, however, under-
scored Soviet support for North Korea, calling the
Pueblo's mission a "dangerous provocation." It also
said North Korean newspapers had been describing the
Pueblo's electronic equipment and intelligence functions
"In detail."
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