A sense of destiny: Ibid.
Gripped by “intense fear”: LBJ, NSF, International Meetings and Travel File, Korea, President Johnson’s Meeting w/ President Park, 4/68, container 21.
A “relatively short war”: LBJ, NSF, Country File, Korea, Memos and Cables, Vol. VI, 4/68–12/68, box 256.
“Inimical to the U.S. national interest”: Ibid.
“A shock for the Asians”: LBJ, NSF, National Security Council Histories, Pueblo Crisis 1968, Vol. 7, Day by Day Documents, Part 14, box 30.
“You must give us the main strength”: Ibid.
“Loaded with live bullets”: Ibid.
“We are treating them too well”: WW, Report, Embassy of Hungary in North Korea to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, 27 April 1968, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Crisis-Conf.Doc_reader-Pt1.pdf.
“Bourgeois pacifism and revisionism”: WW, Presidium of the Central Committee of CPCZ, Information about the Situation in Korea, February 5, 1968, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/NKIDP_Document_Reader_New_Evidence_on_North_Korea.pdf.
220 miles up the east coast: NA, RG 59, General Records of the Department of State, Central Foreign Policy Files 1967–1969, Political and Defense, Pol 33-6 Kor N.–U.S. 4/1/68 to 5/1/68, folder: 4/15/86, box 2270.
CHAPTER 11: SUMMER OF DEFIANCE
“Every little nitpicky thing”: Author interview with Jim Kell.
“It would cost them a lot of money”: Author interview with Lloyd M. Bucher.
He’d make it his solemn business: Ibid.
Bucher mumbled that he no longer cared: Ed Brandt, The Last Voyage of USS Pueblo (W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1969), 151.
“I’m happier than shit”: Author interview with Charles Law.
“Goddamn it, I didn’t kill the goddamn plant”: Brandt, op. cit., 145.
Strano husbanded his growing stash: Ibid., 152.
“He’d realize we got to him, and he’d send us off”: Law interview. op. cit.
“His head down”: Trevor Armbrister, A Matter of Accountability: The True Story of the Pueblo Affair (Coward-McCann Inc., New York, 1970), 308.
“Christ, there goes my career”: Ibid., 309.
“You lose a .45[-caliber pistol] in the Navy”: Author interview with F. Carl (Skip) Schumacher Jr.
“If you got five or six guys who saw it one way”: Bucher interview. op. cit.
“No tender private thoughts could be conveyed”: Lloyd M. Bucher and Mark Rascovich, Bucher: My Story (Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1970), 335.
“I told you it was gonna make me sweat”: Armbrister, op. cit., 309.
“Run over him”: Interview with Donald Richard Peppard, Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, Oct. 29, 2002.
“The majority were … CIA operatives”: NA, RG 59, General Records of the Department of State, Central Foreign Policy Files, 1967–1969, Political and Defense, Central, Pol 33-6, Kor N–U.S., 7/1/68, box 2272, folder: 7/1/68.
Two crewmen were beaten: HI, unpublished excerpt from Bucher: My Story, Bucher Papers, box 17.
The “12 ball problem”: F. Carl Schumacher Jr. and George C. Wilson, Bridge of No Return: The Ordeal of the USS Pueblo (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York, 1971), 177.
Harris’s nighttime dreams: Stephen R. Harris and James C. Hefley, My Anchor Held (Fleming H. Revell Co., Old Tappan, New Jersey, 1970), 100.
The infection in Murphy’s foot: Edward R. Murphy Jr. and Curt Gentry, Second in Command (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1971), 267.
“Let the evil spirits out”: Armbrister, op. cit., 318.
“Good luck, everyone”: Brandt, op. cit., 164.
“That means a lot to me”: Kell interview. op. cit.
Still more coordinates: Murphy, op. cit., 269.
“Oh, how I long to walk”: “Text of Pueblo Crew’s Press Conference,” as prepared by the Korean Central News Agency, Sept. 16, 1968, 12.
“The proof is irrefutable”: Ibid., 16.
What a North Korean court-martial was like: Brandt, op. cit., 182.
Toilet paper stayed in Bucher’s pocket: Bucher, Bucher: My Story, op. cit., 346.
CHAPTER 12: AN UNAPOLOGETIC APOLOGY
“Defeatism, puny protest, and wishy-washy talk-a-thons”: Congressional Record, July 22, 1968, pp. H7168–7169.
Such mishaps … had to stop: LBJ, NSF, Country File, Korea memos and cables, Vol. VI, 4/68–12/68, box 256.
“Maximum exploitability”: NA, RG 218, Records of Gen. Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, box 29, folder: 091 Korea, 5/1/68–4/31/69.
“Wipe out” potential American invaders: Washington Post, June 1, 1968.
“U.S. restraint in the Pueblo affair probably strengthened this view”: NA, RG 59, General Records of the Department of State, Policy Planning Council, Korea through Philippines 1967–1968, box 306, folder: Korea, 1967–1968.
Code-named “Freedom Drop”: NA, RG 218, Records of Gen. Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , box 29, folder: Korea 091, 1 May 1968–31 April 1969.
Cynical and unpleasant: WW, 15 April 1969: 11:00 p.m., Telephone conversation between National Security Adviser Kissinger and Dr. Kramer, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Crisis-Conf.Doc_reader-Pt1.pdf.
“Maximum violence”: LBJ, NSF, Memos to the President—Walt Rostow, Vol. 76, May 9–14, 1968 (1 of 2), box 34.
“Over 30 miles from shore on dry land”: LBJ, NSF, Papers of Clark Clifford, Pueblo, March 1, 1968–Jan. 20, 1969, box 23.
“Both sides would understand this ambiguity”: LBJ, National Security File, Memos to the President—Walt Rostow, Vol. 78, May 20–24, 1968 (2 of 2), box 34.
“This country cannot indulge in lies”: Virginian-Pilot newspaper, undated. A copy is in the author’s possession.
“Republic of Korea and the United States are inseparably bound”: NA, RG 59, General Records of the Department of State, Central Foreign Policy Files, 1967–1969, Political and Defense, Pol 33-6 Kor N-US, 5/1/68 to 7/1/68, box 2271, folder: 5/20/68.
The more outlandish the rhetoric: Ibid., folder: 7/1/68.
A Japanese newsman: NA, RG 526, Records of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Stack 630A/1/2/1, box 12, folder: “Pueblo No. 1.”