Sunday, October 10, 2010

USS Pueblo AGER-2




From 6/25/1986 ( United States President Ronald Reagan - Proclamation 5506—National Homelessness Awareness Week 1986 ) To 3/6/1998 ( premiere US film "U.S. Marshals" ) is 4272 days

4272 = 2136 + 2136

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) To 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University Medical Doctor degree graduate ) is 2136 days


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U.S. Marshals (1998)

Country Date

USA 6 March 1998



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U.S. Marshals (1998)

Release Date: 6 March 1998 (USA)


Tommy Lee Jones ... Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard










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Tom Wood

Born: April 19, 1963

The Fugitive
Newman

U.S. Marshals
Deputy Marshal Noah Newman










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Biography for

Valerie Plame

Date of Birth

19 April 1963


Spouse

Joseph Wilson (3 April 1998 - present)










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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Pueblo (AGER-2, originally AKL-44), 1967-____

USS Pueblo, an 850-ton environmental research ship, was built at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, in 1944 as the the U.S. Army cargo ship FP-344. She was transferred to the Navy in April 1966 and renamed Pueblo. Initially designated a light cargo ship (AKL-44), she soon began conversion to a research ship and was redesignated AGER-2 shortly before commissioning in May 1967. Following training operations off the U.S. west coast, in November 1967 Pueblo departed for the Far East to undertake electronic intelligence collection and other duties.

On 23 January 1968, while off Wonsan, North Korea, Pueblo was attacked by local forces and seized. One crewmember was killed in the assault and the other eighty-two men on board were taken prisoner. The North Koreans contended that the ship had violated their territorial waters, a claim vigorously denied by the United States. After eleven months in captivity, often under inhumane conditions, Pueblo's crew were repatriated on 23 December 1968. The ship was retained by North Korea, though she is still the property of the U.S. Navy. She was exhibited at Wonsan and Hungham for three decades and is now a museum at Pyongyang, the North Korean capital city.





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USS Pueblo (AGER-2)

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is an American ELINT and SIGINT Banner-class technical research ship (Navy intelligence) which was boarded and captured by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on January 23, 1968, in what is known as the Pueblo incident or alternatively as the Pueblo crisis or the Pueblo affair. It was a major incident in the Cold War.

North Korea stated that it strayed into their territorial waters, but the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident.

Pueblo, still held by the DPRK today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. It is currently located on the east coast of the DPRK in Wonsan Harbor, where it is used as a museum ship. It is the only ship of the U.S. Navy currently being held captive.