PUEBLO SITREP NO. 25

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06811596
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-00781
• Publication Date: January 31, 1968

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CONFI/NTIAL
OCI No, 01912/68
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Directorate of Intelligence
31 January 1968
INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM
Pueblo Sitrep No. 25
(As of 5 PM EST)
98
1. North Korea has indicated it may eventually
be willing to discuss the Pueblo issue with the US
at Panmunjon. Kim Kwang-Hyop, a member of the
secretariat of the central committee of North Korea's
communist party, said today in Pyongyang that "there
is a precedent for the treatment of similar cases
(as the Pueblo incident) at the Korean Military
Armistice Commission." "It is a miscalculation,"
Kim continued, "if the US imperialists think that
they can solve the incident of the intrusion of the
Pueblo into the territorial waters of our country
Eir-EITitary threats or by the method of aggressive
war or through illegal discussion at the United Na-
tions." He added, however, that "it will be a dif-
ferent story if they want to solve this question by
method of the previous practice."
2. The precedent Kim mentions probably refers
to negotiations at Panmunjon in 1963-1964 which re-
sulted in the release of two US helicopter pilots
downed in North Korea.
3. According to preliminary reports, the des-
troyer Rowan was in a collision with a Soviet mer-
chant ship at 2:52 PM this afternoon. The Rowan
was accompanying the Ranger task group about 50
miles offthe South Korean coast. The Soviet ship,
the 11,000 tons Kapitan Vislobokov, was en route
to Odessa from Vladivostok when the collision oc-
curred. There is no information yet on the extent
of the damage suffered by either ship.
CONFIAENTIAL
GROUP 1
Excluded from automatic
downgrading and
declassificution
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