PUEBLO INCIDENT MORE GRAVE THAN CUBAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200350021-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 9, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON (h?4NA) -
He believes Cmdr
Lloyd M
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The 'ettrl'~n't`"Y7;S~ confrontation Bucher succeeded in destroying ;
with North Korea may be more most of his ship's classified ,
ominous than the Cuban missile devices before he and his 83
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crisis of 1962, in the view of a men were taken prisoner. Kirk- , P
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V telligence Agency official
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Lyman $, Kirkpatrick, Jr., live equipment, an eventuality`.
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who served as executive direc- which could be damaging,
for of the CIA during the Kenna- He readily admits the CIA
? dy adriiirristration, character- operates outside the law in in-
? ized the tense situation now ~ formation-gathering activity, ;
prevailing as "more grave from conducted abroad. "If they"
' ' the point of view that thore was don't want you to have it, it's anj
' ~ 'better control in the Cuban mil- infringement of their sovereign-
. 'rile crisis. The Russians were tY." he said. However, he in-~
~?not anxious to provoke a gaper- lists the agency's internal oper-r
? ; ~al war." ations those within U.S. bounds-; ,
Kirkpatrick, now a professor rues, are conducted within thel;
' at Brawn University, omphasiz- law.
ed his opinions were not based "I get a little annoyed when Ii
on classified information, `but haa~r the sanctimonious com-
' ~ on published material ar~d the ments about an intelligence ship
debate in the United Nations like the Pueblo. The Russians
"} ~ ;Security?Council. have theirs following our fleet
"' ~- units. As newspaper photo-
? ~ He voiced his views during a
visit to the capibal, graphs show, one is sitting on
' ~ Kirkpatrick b e 1 i e v e s the the tail of the enterprise right-
N6rth Koreans seized the USS now.
"News stories often menEi'onj
Pueblo
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the Soviet trawler sitting off ~ ,.
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nam. It listens to all .ship
? the . 'Chinese or Russians, with communications, Those trawl-~
whom their. relations reportedly ers get i~n so ._olose they eansti. j
rare coal. tote a hazard, 1
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.exceedingly would simply note there are
? ;difficult to deal with," he said, hundreds of Russians operating
. Moscoly end Peking, however, in the United States with legal
~Ti~ave publicly backed North Ko- immunity whose primary funs-
rea, Moscow ,has .rejected ? U.S. lion is collecting intelligence."
requests . to help effect asettle- In a recently published book,
' ? anent. "The Real CIA," (MacMillan)
' Soviet Premier Kosygin bakes Kirkpatrick sand the .major
. ~ the position that tho Pueblo cause of the fail
f
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'. violated North Korea's ocean of Pigs invasion in Cuba in 1961 :
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es, Peking supports the was "A complete miscalculation
seizure. of the ship, although it 'by the CIA operators of what
has not indicated it intends to was required to do the job." He
intervene in North Korea's be- said his book had bee~n:clearcd
ha$' by the agency.
? ~ ~ Kirkpatrick is a career intelli- Cuban Communist forces sue-',
genco officer of 23 years' ~c~-~ prised tho GIA at the tuna tvlt,'~
perience, He served night yea.?s ~ #,~,eir strength and loyalty. The
' as the' CIA's ir~spectar-ga::;rui, i invasion force probably waWd
florae becoming its executive di- have. lost "even if Castro had
:rector, the agency's no. 3 posi- not had airplanes or tanks,,' he'
ton.' ~ ~ staid.
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