PUEBLO WAS NOT INTRUDING ON DAY OF CAPTURE, U.S. SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000200220070-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2004
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: February 6, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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Pueblo WasIiitrwiing
On Day of Captiire,U.S. Says
By Warren Unna I gave every impression that it the one dead and three
Washington ?oat Staff Writer had never trespassed into wounded Pueblo crewmen.
The Johnson Administration Bundy, As-
North Korean waters at anyl But As-
sistant William P. Secretary of State for
yesterday shifted from saying time and. had scrupulouslyiEast Asian Affairs, comment-
the U.S. Navy intelligence stayed out to sea several miles.
N thing on the stories, said yester-
t
ship Pueblo had never in-
truded in North Korea's terri-
torial waters to saying it
hadn't intruded on the day it
was captured, Jan. 23.
State Department spokes-
man Robert J. McCloskey, in
criticizing 'an editorial in es-
terday's editions o f 't'he Wash-
ington Post, called ` a special
press briefing. He announced
that Ambassador Arthur J.
s or
beyond even the limi
Iday that "the reports have no
Korea claims. !foundation, I am sorry to say."
The shifts in Administration It was announced that U.S.
statements came as stories l military representatives had
began appearing in the South met with North Korea for a
Korean and Japanese press fourth session at Panmunjom
Goldberg,, in histelevised de-
fense of the , Pueblo case be-
.N. Security Coun-
Poi