Tough choice for the Pueblo Captain. If Navy regs at the time had been followed, there would be no one left to reunite with. Crypto equipment would have been blown, bilge ‘glug-glug’ valves locked open and no doubt the North Koreans would have had their revenge there and then. A crypto clearance was a very dangerous qualification to own at the time and even on a spook ship, only the CT’s had those, while others had lesser clearances.
Why those spook ships were always put so far out on a limb with no back-up isn’t clear. Kind of like “here ya go, a freebee”.
Scamp
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