The spy ship USS Pueblo's seajacking 23.1.1968.

USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
1n 1967
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The case of the spy ship USS Pueblo began 50 years ago 23.1.1968 when the North-Korean government seajacked American spy ship USS Pueblo near the coast of North Korea. The incident and hostage situation remained in 11 months and after that USA was retired, and the extortionate sailors returned home. In that incident, the USAF was ready to attack in North Korea with the nuclear weapons and F-105 Thuderchief fighter-bombers.


The seajacking of that ship was the very serious thing, and on that ship were many NSA:s highly classified papers. And the spy equipment of that ship was going to hands of North-Korea. Those documents were not involved the most secret files, but this incident was the very bad thing for NSA, what was the classified agency in that time, and of course, the diplomatic way was better than open warfare against that small country. The spy ship didn't have anything so classified, what NSA couldn't replace, but that case was shown that spy ships are good targets for attack.

F-105 "Thunderchief"
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And what is the most important thing, what NSA noticed, is that there must always be the system, what replaces another if this kind of unpredictable thing would happen. And of course, the most important thing in those cases is that every code table must be replaced by the new one if some code books will go to hands of the terrorists. But when we are thinking about the "case Pueblo" in the way of the intelligence, this kind of action could be the fiasco.


The opponent would get the information of the attack, and the codebooks were changed immediately when the alarm was given. And if we are starting to speculate about this kind of things, we must say that the radio-equipments of that ship could send the information about the radio-transmissions during the operation. In some scenarios, some "half secret" aircraft would be given to the opponent, and then this plane would take to the best military base, where it would investigated by the military and engineer stuff, what the opponent has, and then the automatized systems inside that wreck would give the information about the military base.


In some stories the "UFO, what was dropped to Roswell" was actually the trojan horse what was slipped in the most secret military base in the USA. I used this case as an example of the way of thinking, what the military intelligence has. They might try to slip the spy plane or spy ship to the best military base what the enemy has, and then automatized spy systems might record the pictures and electronic voices of that complex.


And also they might have the sniffers to make the chemical analyses about fuel, and if we use our imagination, we must think that those trojan horses would also scan the DNA from the workers of the base. And then some agent will get some work to the date and offers the person sodium amytal, and then that agent could ask the questions about this top-secret base.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/uss-pueblo-captured

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-105_Thunderchief

Picture 1

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)#/media/File:USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2).jpg

Picture 2

http://www.talkingproud.us/Military/Military/Sanders_files/357thtfsf105.jpg