In order to secure the release of LT Cdr Bucher and his men, the United States Government signed documents admitting that we had conducted germ warfare against the North Korean population.
I was not happy with the precedent set, but I most certainly am not displeased with the results.
But at the time, there were concerns that once the NK's had that signed governmental *confession,* they'd then execute the Pueblo's crew as *war criminals.* I'm just glad it didn't work out that way, and it's sad that the Pueblo episode was to a large extent overshadowed by the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
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