PUEBLO SITREP NO. 19 (AS OF 5 P.M. EST)

Created: 1/29/1968

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Directorate of Intelligence8

MEMORANDUM

PUEBLO SITREP No.As. EST)

N Security Council President Aga Shahi can-Council meeting scheduled for this afternoonlegates more tine for private talks "on an Us."

The North Vietnamese government today voiced its surjort for its North Korean "brothers and comrades in arms"trong statement scoring the dispatch of the Pueblo to Asian waters asrazen act of provoca-tion" designed "toew war of aggression against thend as "an encroachment onlaw and3 armistice agreement onhe statement promisedietnamese people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the brotherly Koreann whatever circumstances."

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4. Communist Eas" European inforsia r, ion mediaheavy pro-North Korean coverage ro thestressing zhe seriousness of tho incidentintelligence mission of the ship. Pressunanimouslyhe US aselligerentaccounts have accused the US ofheto divert public opinion from Hanoi's The press has given special attention to* theof USut has also reported, almostthat the views of Washington's moderatesso

6. The Soviot Riga-class destroyer which left the Task Force last night has begun shadowing the US5ship to the Pueblo. The Banner, cur-rently scheduled to rendezvous with the onight, was approached to within 4o0 yards by the Riga and illuminated forinutes. The Riga is presently following the Banner byards.

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