[gaijin]

I believe that Richard Marcinko (the former S.E.A.L. author of, "Red Cell", and many others) was dispatched right after the Pueblo's capture to attempt to destroy any cryptography equipment that remained onboard.

I vaguely recall that they did get aboard, but found that the equipment had already been removed. The vessel was being kept tied-up dockside in a very obvious place, amazingly.

They had to boogy out of their real quick, and I remember that there was a little bit of shooting.

[Rapscallion]

I vaguely recall that they did get aboard, but found that the [crypto] equipment had already been removed.

The crypto equipment went to Russia so the KGB could exploit the crypto key material they were getting from the spies W/O John Walker and W/O Gerald Whitworth...according to the History Channel.

[Bender2]

Re: I believe that Richard Marcinko (the former S.E.A.L. author of, "Red Cell", and many others) was dispatched right after the Pueblo's capture to attempt to destroy any cryptography equipment that remained onboard. I vaguely recall that they did get aboard, but found that the equipment had already been removed. The vessel was being kept tied-up dockside in a very obvious place, amazingly.

I put very little faith in any thing Marcinko says about this...