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From Wikipedia article
wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)
Pueblo did not have effective defensive weapons. Her 50mm machine guns were kept covered; ammo was stored below deck. Although the crew were trained before departure, these balky machine guns required 10 minutes warmup before they could even be fired… (!? seems a bit odd … apparently they were not really expecting combat …)
"…The North Korean vessels attempted to board Pueblo, but she was maneuvered to prevent this for over two hours. A submarine chaser then opened fire with a 57 mm cannon, killing one member of the crew. The smaller vessels fired machine guns into Pueblo, which then signaled compliance and began destroying sensitive material. The volume of material on board was so great that it was impossible to destroy it all. An NSA report quotes Lieutenant Steve Harris, the officer in charge of Pueblo's Naval Security Group Command detachment:
(…) we had retained on board the obsolete publications and had all good intentions of getting rid of these things but had not done so at the time we had started the mission. I wanted to get the place organized eventually and we had excessive numbers of copies on board (…)
and concludes
Only a small percentage of the total classified material aboard the ship was destroyed.
Radio contact between Pueblo and the Naval Security Group in Kamiseya, Japan, had been ongoing during the incident. As a result, Seventh Fleet command was fully aware of Pueblo's situation. Air cover was promised but never arrived. The Fifth Air Force had no aircraft on strip alert, and estimated a two to three-hour delay in launching aircraft. USS Enterprise was located 510 nautical miles (940 km) south of Pueblo, yet her four F-4B aircraft on alert were not equipped for an air-to-surface engagement. Enterprise's captain estimated that 1.5 hours (90 minutes) were required to get the converted aircraft into the air.[11]
Pueblo followed the North Korean vessels as ordered, but then stopped immediately outside North Korean waters. She was again fired upon, and a sailor, fireman Duane Hodges, was killed. The ship was finally boarded at 05:55 UTC (2:55 pm local)[13] by men from a torpedo boat and a submarine chaser. Crew members had their hands tied and were blindfolded, beaten, and prodded with bayonets. Once Pueblo was in North Korean territorial waters, she was boarded again, this time by high-ranking North Korean officials…. "
…Breach of US Navy communications security
Reverse engineering of communications devices on Pueblo allowed the North Koreans to share knowledge with the Soviet Union that led to the replication of those communications devices. This allowed the two nations access to the US Navy's communication systems until the late 1980s when the US Navy revised those systems. The seizure of Pueblo followed soon after US Navy warrant officer John Anthony Walker introduced himself to Soviet authorities, setting up the Walker spy ring. It has been argued that the seizure of Pueblo was executed specifically to capture the encryption devices aboard. Without them, it was difficult for the Soviets to make full use of Walker's information.
I find this incredible. Does this make any sense?
→Pueblo had top-of-the-line encryption gear aboard (yes)
→Encryption gear was captured by enemies (yes)
→US Navy continued to use that same hardware "until the late 1980s when the US Navy revised those systems", in other words continued in a course of action that could have left them wide open to being spied upon for >17 years? THIS IS INCREDIBLE. These were encryption DEVICES and presumably the devices utilized encryption keys or codes. The Navy were able to change the keys or codes, but not the devices. So it may have left us vulnerable or partly vulnerable. Certainly it made the enemy's spying task a lot easier.
Is THIS the RELEVANCE of the PUEBLO to this deep dig, anons?