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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Directorate of Intelligence8
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
PUEBLO SITREP (as of0 EST)
1. North Korea is continuing toard line, on the Pueblo incident.
2. At today's Military Armistice Commission meeting at panmunjom the senior Communist delegate, Maj. Gen. Pak Chung-kuk, flatlySfor the immediate return of the Pueblo and its crew. He charged the Pueblo had committedprovocations" when it "illegally {into North Korean waters) on an espionage mission" and further claimed the Pueblo's crew had fired on North Korean oatrol boats.
oiles from tneNorth Korean land mass. US Rear Adm. John V. Smith had demanded that Pyongyang return the ship andman crew, apologize for the incident, and be aware that the us reserves the right to demand compensation.
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aircraft carrier Enterprise, with destroyers and Osbourn has movedewautical miles south of South Koreanautical miles southwest of Sasebo, Japan. Collett and O'Bannon are steamingrendezvous
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